{"id":114046,"date":"2013-11-08T00:07:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=114046"},"modified":"2013-11-29T17:20:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T11:50:17","slug":"sri-lankas-state-press-launches-scathing-attack-on-channel-4-ahead-of-chogm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankas-state-press-launches-scathing-attack-on-channel-4-ahead-of-chogm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s State Press Launches Scathing Attack On Channel 4 Ahead Of CHOGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s Government controlled daily has launched a scathing attack on Britain&#8217;s Channel 4, days before a crew from the broadcaster is scheduled to arrive in Colombo to cover the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting next week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_110855\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajapaksas-are-comfortable-with-me-rajpal-abeynayake\/rajpal-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110855\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110855\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110855 \" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Rajpal-1.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajpal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Calling Channel 4 reporting &#8220;tacky, lurid pants-on-fire journalism that&#8217;s not fact checked, not sourced or corroborated,&#8221; the Editor of the Daily News <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Rajpal+Abeynayake&amp;x=12&amp;y=6\">Rajpal Abeynayake<\/a><\/span> wrote in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.lk\/editorial1\">his editorial<\/a><\/span> this morning that it was &#8220;journalism on the far side of the moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Calling Commonwealth Secretary General <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kamalesh+Sharma&amp;x=13&amp;y=7\">Kamalesh Sharma<\/a><\/span> &#8220;affable&#8221; &#8211; the official has been extremely concessionary towards the Rajapaksa regime &#8211; the Daily News Editorial said Channel 4&#8217;s Jon Snow was in an ignoble hurry to trip him up during a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The enormity of the canard boggles the mind. 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John Snow if he can malign a country in this way without feeling the need to substantiate what he says with an infinitesimal jot of evidence, is obviously of a criminal mindset as the charges he makes sets him up as a direct agent for seeking to maliciously prosecute key persons in the higher echelon of the Sri Lankan Establishment,&#8221; Abeynayake writes.<\/p>\n<p>Abeynayake&#8217;s newspaper which has seen an unprecedented lowering of standards since he assumed the chair said Channel 4&#8217;s journalism was &#8220;a crime against humanity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Abeynayake&#8217;s editorials regularly and personally vilify media personnel, rights activists and opposition members &#8211; and essentially any public persons both within and outside Sri Lanka who hold dissenting views from that of the ruling Rajapaksa regime and its media bandwagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":110855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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