{"id":54842,"date":"2012-09-23T06:55:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T06:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=54842"},"modified":"2012-09-23T06:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T06:56:25","slug":"sunday-leader-censored-emil-van-der-poortens-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sunday-leader-censored-emil-van-der-poortens-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Leader Censored Emil van der Poorten&#8217;s Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49302\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/much-ado-about-nothing-or-is-it\/emil-van-der-poorten\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49302\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49302\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-49302\" title=\"Emil van der Poorten\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Emil-van-der-Poorten-139x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emil van der Poorten<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sunday+Leader&amp;x=13&amp;y=4\">Sunday Leader<\/a><\/span> decided not to publish\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Emil+van+der+Poorten&amp;x=13&amp;y=7\">Emil van der Poorten<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s\u00a0today as a result of the Sunday Leader\u2019s new owner\u00a0Asanga Seneviratne&#8217;s order that &#8220;nothing is to be published against the First Family.&#8221; \u00a0Colombo Telegraph learnt that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Asanga+Seneviratne&amp;x=5&amp;y=7\">Asanga Seneviratne<\/a><\/span> told the staff that Emil&#8217;s column\u00a0had been dropped because it was &#8220;not good enough&#8221;.\u00a0Emil van der Poorten twice\u00a0received awards from the SLPI\/Editor&#8217;s Guild for his column.<\/p>\n<p>To read the censored column click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/painting-yourself-and-a-whole-nation-into-a-corner\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related\u00a0posts;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Frede Out And Saku In \u2013 Frederica Is Sacked, Not Resigned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/frede-out-and-saku-in-frederica-is-sacked-not-resigned\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Frede Out And Saku In \u2013 Frederica Is Sacked, Not Resigned<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"\u2018Editor Threatened With Death Is Sacked As ARTICLE 19\u2019s Warning To UN Comes True\u2019 Says ARTICLE 19\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/editor-threatened-with-death-is-sacked-as-article-19s-warning-to-un-comes-true-says-article-19\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u2018Editor Threatened With Death Is Sacked As ARTICLE 19\u2019s Warning To UN Comes True\u2019 Says ARTICLE 19<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"A Dodgy Police Complaint To Axe Frederica Jansz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-dodgy-police-complaint-to-axe-frederica-jansz\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A Dodgy Police Complaint To Axe Frederica Jansz<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":49302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[4985,4990],"class_list":["post-54842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","tag-sunday-leader-censored-emil-van-der-poortens-column","tag-sunday-leader-under-asanga-seneviratne-and-sakunthala-perera"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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