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Anu maheshwari
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Role of Media in times of Conflict
January 25, 2009 - 09:05 AM
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Sri Lanka: a voice cries freedom from beyond the grave
Posted By: Peter Foster
Back from Beijing (where I spent last week, apologies for lack of posts) to report, with the heaviest heart, the murder of one of Sri Lanka's bravest and most controversial journalists.
Lasantha Wickrematunge, 50, was stabbed and shot to death in broad daylight last Friday as he drove to work at The Sunday Leader, the liberal Colombo-based newspaper he edited.
His death - conveniently obscured in the news agenda abroad by events in Gaza and at home by Sri Lankan army's gains against the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in the Elephant Pass - sounds the death knell for civil society in Sri Lanka.
Just like all the other state-sanctioned killings in Sri Lanka, the promised investigation will be an unholy sham. His killers won't be caught and 'we'll never know', who did it.
However Mr Wickrematunge, writing from the grave (see below), is in no doubt who was behind his murder: the Rajapakse regime and its lawless proxies.
There is so much to say about this killing - how perfectly it demonstrates the fact that the current government of Sri Lanka has become indistinguishable from its evil enemy, the LTTE; how pyrrhic, ultimately, are all the great victories in the North.
But today I'm not going to waste your time with my words, but instead to exhort you to read those of Mr Wickrematunge himself, written from beyond the grave and published in the Sunday Leader this weekend, two days after his violent death.
If you do anything today, take the time to read what follows. It is profound and important and puts the frivolous, prying journalism of the West (look what we did with our hard-won freedoms) into humbling perspective.
These are the words of a truly wise and brave man and they deserve the widest possible audience. Mr Wickrematunge died for speaking truth unto power and in return for giving his life in the name of freedom (strange, is it not, how devalued that phrase has become?) the world, which has not done enough to prevent killings like Mr Wickrematunge's, should pay him the courtesy of listening to what he has to say, one last time.
'And Then They Came For Me'
By Lasantha Wickrematunge
............read more here
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/peter_foster/blog/2009/01/12/sri_lanka_a_voice_cries_freedom_from_beyond_the_grave
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Re: Role of Media in times of Conflict
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Re: Role of Media in times of Conflict
April 7, 2009 - 03:11 PM
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In times of conflict I think that the media can be quite one sided. Although all sides do have some form of bias.
Also I've noticed media sources don't like to tell the entire story.
Hmms but what do you guys think?
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Re: Role of Media in times of Conflict
May 7, 2009 - 07:49 PM
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Chantelle, what exactly do you mean when you say that the media doesn't like to tell the entire story?
And in my opinion, there is no such thing as objectivity: each media-house is run by its own set of guidleines which dictate the view from which stories are told. In addition, each reporter and even the cameramen, photographers, etc. have their own personal paradigms from which they view the world. These biases will always translate to their work.
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