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		<title>A Silenced Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frederica Jansz Last week a story on the front page of a daily English newspaper caught my eye.  Not for its content but for the sheer absurdity of such a story having made headlines on the front page of a newspaper. This was the story: Manioc stolen from Horogolla. The article went on to say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6045446&amp;post=6700&amp;subd=sunandadeshapriya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FREE MEDIA AND THE COLOURS OF JANUARY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When this correspondent went to the Fort Railway Station to join colleagues in a planned demonstration of media activists last Thursday, he was confronted by an unexpected situation. The site of the proposed demonstration was already occupied by (presumably) agents of the government who held a counter protest. Their placards read: “Free Media Movement is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6045446&amp;post=6697&amp;subd=sunandadeshapriya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Media activists challenge government</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media activists coming down hard on Minister Keheliya Rambukwella for his statement accusing journalists of being in the LTTE payroll have demanded legal action against those reporters if proved. “We challenge the government to prove these charges, because we’re ready to face the consequences,” said Sunil Jayasekera, Convener of the Free Media Movement. “So many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6045446&amp;post=6694&amp;subd=sunandadeshapriya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Local code of media ethics will be introduced’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is a true Sri Lankan from Medamulana will not accept a code of media ethics imported from the UK, as suggested by the Opposition Leader. A local code of media ethics formulated by Sri Lankan journalists, academics etc to match local requirements is to be introduced this year,” Cabinet Spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6045446&amp;post=6692&amp;subd=sunandadeshapriya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pro government group  take on FMM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of journalists representing private and public sector media institutions yesterday launched a massive protest against attempts by the Opposition in connivance with the Free Media Movement (FMM) to tarnish the image of the country at a time when it has won accolades from all parts of the world for restoring peace and democracy in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6045446&amp;post=6689&amp;subd=sunandadeshapriya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journalists in exile conspiring</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalists who have fled the country are conspiring to defame the country, Minister of Media &#8211; Keheliya Rambukwella has said. Making an exclusive statement to the state-owned Dinamina newspaper, Minister Rambukwella has said that all journalists must stand against this in order to defeat this conspiracy. He emphasizes that no journalist should be allowed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6045446&amp;post=6686&amp;subd=sunandadeshapriya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-govt. group forces Black January protesters out</title>
		<link>http://sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/pro-govt-group-forces-black-january-protesters-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Sri Lanka slipped to 163rd position on the World Press Freedom Index, a pro-government mob yesterday prevented seven media organisations from staging a protest, titled Black January against media suppression, at the Fort Railway Station premises despite a Court order granting them permission.  When the media personnel arrived at the Fort Railway Station yesterday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6045446&amp;post=6683&amp;subd=sunandadeshapriya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka drops in  RSF World Press Freedom Index</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Sri Lanka dropped down five places last year from 2010 to rank among the 20 worst countries in a leading survey of press freedom. The annual World Press Freedom Index for 2011 compiled by Paris based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has ranked Sri Lanka 163 out of 178 countries ranked. Sri Lanka was ranked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6045446&amp;post=6681&amp;subd=sunandadeshapriya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black January media protest:  Police harassments continue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Black January&#8217; shifted to Lipton Circus The Black January protest is to be held at the Lipton Circus at 3.00 pm today (Jan. 25), reports say. The demonstration was earlier scheduled to be held at 2.00 pm at the Fort Railway Station compound. Speaking to &#8216;Srilankamirror&#8217; on behalf of the Sri Lanka&#8217;s Alliance of Media [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6045446&amp;post=6678&amp;subd=sunandadeshapriya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Police want court order against meida protest</title>
		<link>http://sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/police-want-court-order-against-meida-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Court ruling on Black January protest on 25th   Srilankamirror &#8211; Fort Magistrate Kanishka Wijeratne today decided that the ruling of the petition against the Black January protest will be handed tomorrow (Jan. 25). The Black January protest is scheduled to be held in front of Colombo Fort Railway Station tomorrow. Organised by Sri Lanka&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6045446&amp;post=6675&amp;subd=sunandadeshapriya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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