{"id":162335,"date":"2016-05-14T00:18:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=162335"},"modified":"2016-05-14T00:18:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:48:41","slug":"media-secretary-in-latest-stunt-storms-into-rupavahini-demands-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/media-secretary-in-latest-stunt-storms-into-rupavahini-demands-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Secretary In Latest Stunt Storms Into Rupavahini, Demands Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly appointed Mass Media Secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Nimal+Bopage&amp;x=7&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nimal Bopage<\/span><\/a> was involved in yet another stunt on Friday morning, after he allegedly stormed into the office of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation and demanded it\u2019s hierarchy and employees to apologise to him for carrying an unfavourable news item on him.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_161656\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><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\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161656\" class=\"wp-image-161656 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Nimal-Bopage-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Nimal Bopage\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Nimal-Bopage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Nimal-Bopage-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-161656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nimal Bopage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Highly places sources said that a furious Bopage had walked into Rupavahini, summoned the staff, including it\u2019s chairman and had demanded they apologise to him after a presenter at the television station had reportedly read out an article during the \u2018Ada (Today) &#8211; News paper Review\u2019 programme which said that Bopage was to be removed from his ministerial position.<\/p>\n<p>The staff had however refused to apologise to the ministry secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, when Colombo Telegraph contacted Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ravi+Jayawardena&amp;x=8&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ravi Jayawardena<\/span><\/a>, he denied any such incident and said that Bopage only visited the Rupavahini office to discuss official matters in his current capacity as the new secretary to the ministry of mass media. \u201cNo, no nothing like this happened. He came to meet us and discuss matters pertaining to our functions, as he just took over office as secretary only recently,\u201d Jayawardena said.<\/p>\n<p>Bopage has come under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bopage-gets-an-earful-from-ranil\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">heavy criticism<\/span><\/a> since he took office in April, after he issued a statement without approval from the subject minister, demanding the country\u2019s media to not give publicity to the joint opposition, and also warning that giving the joint opposition can lead to be media being legally viable. The government was quick to reject the statement, saying it was Bopage\u2019s personal opinion, and Bopage received an earful from the Prime Minister following the incident.<\/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":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Media Secretary In Latest Stunt Storms Into Rupavahini, Demands Apology - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/media-secretary-in-latest-stunt-storms-into-rupavahini-demands-apology\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Media Secretary In Latest Stunt Storms Into Rupavahini, Demands Apology - 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