Journalists, corrupt MP’s, Are you a drug addict? Media culture

Monday, 01 June 2015

It is true that not only in Sri Lanka but all over the world there is an agenda and a policy for all private media institutions and semi government media institutions who call them as “Public Media”

When some media institutions openly promote their agenda some media institutions stealthily implement their boss’s necessity.

Sometimes the boss can be drug dealer involved in money laundering, at times the boss can be a gambler who influences public to indulge in gambling and invest that unlimited profit into his media.

However there is a special media culture meant for Sri Lanka which has come to light in the recent past.

It is the disgraceful media usage of the S-Lon pipe plumbers Sirasa/MTV networks.

Despite there is no desire for the author to contempt the plumbers trade but in spite of having a media network and if there is an inferiority complex trying to control the state service according to his whims and fancies it is necessary to provide medication for the inflicted ailment.

It is not a secret that many British leaders kneeled down to the world’s strongest media magnate Rupert Merdoch. However Merdoch and those leaders knew their boundaries.

Therefore however a powerful media magnate did not suffer from an inferiority complex for an extent of creating a “King maker”

We cannot see that the owner of Sirasa/MTV network chairman Kili Rajamahendran has not even followed the footsteps of Rupert Merdoch.

Kili Rajamahendran who could not send his media coolies to the parliament from the UNP national list created an animosity with the UNP leader Ranil Wicramasinghe. As a result he indulged in a disgraceful media campaign to promote Gotabaya’s loyalist Sajith Premadasa as the UNP leader.

Although the attempt foiled Kili Rajamahendran is once again following the policy of attacking Prime Minister Ranil Wicramasinge.

Kili’s media favorites too are shamelessly fulfilling their boss’s requirement.
Maharaja has no problem to know whether his media coolies fulfilling his necessity with a proper media knowledge or not.

Politicians like Sri Ranga, Susil Kendelpitiya and Marikkar’s disgraceful conduct in Sirasa/MTV is a new ingredient in Maharaja’s shameless media culture.
If people’s representatives can indulge in their legal profession I (author) don’t see anything wrong of them to engage in another work.

The problem is how a person like Ranga who was very close to the Rajapaksa, who was involved in many illegal and corrupt partnership deals with MP Namal Rajapaksa, who was a frequent visitor of Temple Trees who is alleged with egregious frauds and corruption has the moral right to cover himself in a white cloth and pretend to question his fraud partners who comes in Minnal prgrammes.
The ironic point is that if the fraudster is a favourite of Rajamahendran there is no problem for the Sirasa who raise its voice against anti corruption.

By the way there is not much difference of the role played by Susil Kindelpitiya.  If these two people wished to stay in media they could have left politics and remained in the media. By entering politics they clearly fulfilled their bosses demands, didn’t they? That is to manipulate the Parliament and the Provincial Councils according to the tune of Sirasa. In response if Kindelpitiya or Marikkar excrete a fart it is a “Breaking News” for Sirasa.

It is ridiculous that Sanjeewa Ranathunga who does not know ABC in politics acting in “Satana Programme” fulfilling the agenda of his boss.

The author contemplates Milinda Moragoda a snow white character sometimes back who appeared on behalf of Rajamahendran at this moment.

Sometimes back I was able to watch an interview in Sirasa with a person addicted to drugs.

The reporter raised a quaint question from the drug addict
“Are you a drug addict?”

The author cannot realize why the reporter raised such a contemptuous question.

Consider how it should have been if the interview was with a whore?

If the recording was done without knowledge why the editor unable to edit before broadcast?

The shortest answer is that if the institution is behaving according to the desire of his close henchmen’s there is no problem for the boss about ethical media culture and its standard.
Special correspondent