Camera in ladies toilet at ‘Mawbima’!
Oct 03, 2015
The Lanka News Web has received reports about yet another despicable incident at ‘Mawbima’ newspaper which is leading gutter journalism in Sri Lanka.
Someone had fixed a camera in the ladies toilet that is being used by female journalists attached to ‘Mawbima’ and ‘Ceylon Today’ newspapers and had had been watching them for some time. A few days ago, one female journalist spotted the camera and immediately complainted to the management. Straight away, ‘Mawbima’ managing editor Thushara Gunaratne had gone there and took the camera and its recorder into his custody.
Later, Thushara informed ‘Mawbima’ owner Tiran Alles, who is presently in England, about the incident. Tiran has told him to keep the camera and the recorder with him safely until he returns. He is due back at this weekend.
Tiran had also instructed Thushara to place the entire blame on the worker who cleans the toilet. Immediately, Thushara sacked him. He told all staff that the cleaner was responsible for the camera in the toilet.
When two employees of the graphic division questioned him as to why he was keeping the camera and the recorder with him, an angry Thushara sacked the two of them too.
Thushara has displayed his meanness by threatening female journalists of ‘Mawbima’ that he would post the content of the camera on facebook. Through his colleague Banda and his girlfriend Aruni, Thushara has told the female journalists that the nudity of female journalists who leave ‘Mawbima’ and provide information to websites would be posted on facebook. Angered by that, the female journalists had retorted that if he did so, they would post on facebook all the mean acts he had committed.
From England, Tiran has told Thushara and Banda that ‘Mawbima’ would have to be closed if its income from advertisements is not improved within the next few months. A possessed Banda came to work yesterday morning and sent the staff to agencies to obtain advertisements. Later, he and Thushara went to ‘The Fat Crab’ for lunch, where while having a beer, the duo had watched the content in the camera and the recorder, say the sources which gave us details of the incident.
