{"id":161655,"date":"2016-05-02T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T10:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=161655"},"modified":"2016-05-03T00:12:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:42:30","slug":"bopage-gets-an-earful-from-ranil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bopage-gets-an-earful-from-ranil\/","title":{"rendered":"Bopage Gets An Earful From Ranil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mass Media Ministry Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Nimal+Bopage&amp;x=13&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nimal Bopage<\/span><\/a> has received an earful from Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, after he criticized journalists and media organisations for giving publicity to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Joint+Opposition&amp;x=11&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Joint Opposition<\/span><\/a>, and said that giving publicity to the group was \u2018illegal\u2019 and they should not misuse the media freedom given under the Yahapalanaya government.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bopage-gets-an-earful-from-ranil\/nimal-bopage\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-161656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-161656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Nimal-Bopage.jpg\" alt=\"Nimal Bopage\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Nimal-Bopage.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Nimal-Bopage-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe had blasted Bopage at a meeting, asking him to not take decisions according to his whims and fancies, and ordered him to in future follow protocol and obtain approval for all statements from subject minister Gayantha Karunathilaka before releasing it to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after Bopage\u2019s statement, Minister Karunathilaka was quick to react to it claiming that it was the ministry secretary\u2019s \u2018personal stand and not the view of the government,\u2019 even though the statement was issued on the letterhead of the Ministry of Parliamentary Reform and Mass Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":161656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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