Sad plight of society’s watchdog
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2015-09-04
Unity within the media industry should be achieved through professional and internationally accepted mechanisms
Just switch on to your radio set in your car and continue to pay attention for a few minutes. You would be shocked to realize the standards of radio journalism in Sri Lanka, no matter what language you would be listening to. The English channels would be comparatively a bit better, but mostly the local language channels would never reach any standards whatsoever. A male and a female host would be on non-stop jabbering and making jokes to themselves – assuming the listeners too would laugh at them; or extremely sub-standard radio dramas that would last for many hours; or else Buddhist prayer programmes. These are the three common features of the day of any Sinhala radio channel – of course except for few news bulletins - mainly the private stations. There could be minor exceptions on investigative programmes in some selective channels, yet again, it stops there.
2015-09-04Unity within the media industry should be achieved through professional and internationally accepted mechanisms
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Just switch on to your radio set in your car and continue to pay attention for a few minutes. You would be shocked to realize the standards of radio journalism in Sri Lanka, no matter what language you would be listening to. The English channels would be comparatively a bit better, but mostly the local language channels would never reach any standards whatsoever. A male and a female host would be on non-stop jabbering and making jokes to themselves – assuming the listeners too would laugh at them; or extremely sub-standard radio dramas that would last for many hours; or else Buddhist prayer programmes. These are the three common features of the day of any Sinhala radio channel – of course except for few news bulletins - mainly the private stations. There could be minor exceptions on investigative programmes in some selective channels, yet again, it stops there.
