Does Sri Lanka need a Code of Media Ethics?
May 24, 2015 10:51 pm
Do you consider that Sri Lanka needs to have a ‘Code of Media Ethics?’ Email your ideas to news@derana.lk or send a fax to 0112 680417.
Or type NEWS YES and send a SMS to 9900 with any mobile network. Join hands with Ada Derana to put a full stop to media misuse in Sri Lanka.
In the recent past, Ada Derana uncovered information regarding what is quite possibly the largest ‘extortion’ in the history of Sri Lankan media, skillfully carried out by one of a media organization in the country.
The preliminary step of the scheme is to intimidate local and foreign investors by ruthlessly criticizing their projects, which are benefiting the country, by falsely portraying them as harmful. Following the intimidation process, the organization in question follows a new media trend of obtaining extortion from the investors after promising to boost the image of their respective projects, using the various platforms of media at its disposal.
