{"id":58107,"date":"2012-10-31T09:02:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T09:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=58107"},"modified":"2012-11-07T23:43:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:43:29","slug":"the-death-of-a-newspaper-a-sort-response-to-brian-seneviratne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-death-of-a-newspaper-a-sort-response-to-brian-seneviratne\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death Of A Newspaper: A Short Response To Brian Seneviratne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Death Of A Newspaper: A Short Response To Brian Seneviratne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lal+Wickrematunge&amp;x=12&amp;y=3\">Lal Wickrematunge<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58108\" style=\"width: 143px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-death-of-a-newspaper-a-sort-response-to-brian-seneviratne\/lal-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58108\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58108\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-58108\" title=\"lal-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lal-1-133x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lal Wickrematunge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Brian+Senewiratne&amp;x=9&amp;y=4\">Brian Senewiratne<\/a><\/span>,<\/p>\n<p>You are wrong on some aspects. I was visiting <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=lasantha+wickrematunge&amp;x=8&amp;y=2\">Lasantha<\/a><\/span>\u2019s family in Melbourne when the settlement or apology as you call it happened on the 18th of July. Lasantha\u2019s family needs help. Big time. I cannot record for public consumption all of that. Anyone who cares desperately for freedom of expression should take a little time to check how Lasantha\u2019s family is doing. They are not doing well. As for me\u2026i carried the business on my shoulder given the stance <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sunday+Leader&amp;x=15&amp;y=3\">the paper<\/a><\/span> was taking, affording total freedom to journalists. Yes, 18 years with no help. The non journalistic staff unstintingly supported the brave journalists who chartered the course of the newspaper, though they were only doing a job. When we were on the thresh hold of folding up, do i send them home? No pay, no jobs for supporting the papers stance for 18 years? The sale was at half the price invested. The official records show it. That was the value left after 18 years. I still applaud the journalists. As for Lasantha\u2026.he was my brother and i will do whatever \u2026.whenever. I don\u2019t have to justify my love and how much I grieve. No one knows that. They cannot. As for me Mr Seneviratne, I like your writings. Still do though you did not understand my position nor the hundred plus staff who need food on their table.<\/p>\n<p>Related post;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-death-of-a-newspaper-the-sunday-leaderthe-entrenchment-of-a-fascist-state\/\">The Death Of A Newspaper \u2013 The Sunday Leader;The Entrenchment Of A Fascist State<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":58108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,2938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editorial","category-popular"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Death Of A Newspaper: A Short Response To Brian Seneviratne - 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