Lap Top Journalism And The Laptoppers
R.A.Ratwatte
With the local Government elections getting closer and speculation on bigger things to come in the near future, a well oiled military type operation seems to be swinging into motion.
Opinion leaders (mostly self styled – some with doctorates, others who claim to be professors and most of them involved with NGOs) are pontificating in SPADES. We have Colombians (to borrow a phrase coined by advocates of this regime) urging similar drawing room patriots to vote for the JVP. Doom and gloom about what is going to be done to us post the Geneva resolutionare rife, without any concrete scenarios.
Divisions are being promoted in even the lesser known political parties. The General has a lot of defectors who it would have been easy to buy out and “convince”. The JVP Western Province stalwart has died in a motorcycle accident. As if the current divisions in the main opposition party were not enough, we have a counterfeit currency scandal that has surfaced. Meanwhile feeble bleats are heard from the opposition asking the people to exercise their franchise.
As an expatriate confined to reading the product of “lap top journalism” in order to glean some sort of idea of what is going on in the debacle of Asia, I look at the emphasis given to the above incidents by the aforesaid “journalists”. My analysis is as follows:
A free Laptop from President to Daily News Editor Rajpal Abeynayake
The Geneva decree is given HUGE publicity but no one bothers to give any likely scenarios. The inference ranges from sanctions hurting just the ruling elite to India invading and creating Eelam on the lines of the recent Russian incursion to Crimea. The plan is to urge the people to be patriotic and keep the current regime in power.
Asking the “intelligentsia” (for want of a better term) to vote for the JVP is given coverage in most of media. This is simply a ham handed attempt to shift some of the ‘Colombians” to get off their posteriors and vote against the UNP. A clear sign that the incumbent regime is worried about the western province and the indigenous mostly unshakable UNP vote that lies therein. Read More
