Media’s Role In Times Of Turbulence
| by Pearl Thevanayagam
(June 22, 2014, Bradford UK, Sri Lanka Guardian)Take a stand, the late veteran journalist Ajith Samaranayake said during a lecture for post graduate journalists at Colombo University and it still reverberates in my ears. And in this light I am reminded of Iqbal Athas whose popular Defence Column enabled international media to assess the ground situation during the 35 year old protracted between the government and the LTTE.
