{"id":67311,"date":"2013-01-01T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T09:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=67311"},"modified":"2013-01-05T06:17:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T06:17:56","slug":"expose-bbc-sinhala-head-knowingly-mislead-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/expose-bbc-sinhala-head-knowingly-mislead-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Expose: BBC Sinhala Head ‘Knowingly Mislead’ The Public"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Head of the BBC Sinhala Service Priyath Liyange knowingly misled the public and Sri Lankan newspaper editors with regard to BBC employees applying for the Sri Lankan government’s interest free vehicle loan, the Colombo Telegraph can exclusively reveal today.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Priyath Liyanage<\/p><\/div>\n

Priyath Liyanage<\/a><\/span> said on 03 December that \u2018the BBC wishes to make clear that no BBC employee will be accepting car loans from the Sri Lankan government, now or in the future\u2019<\/p>\n

The Nation carried the full correspondence between its Editor Malinda Seneviratne<\/a><\/span> and BBC’s Liyange under the title \u2018Factoring integrity into media freedom\u2019. (Read here<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n

Editor, BBC Sinhala Service Priyath Liyange, using the BBC Global News letterhead, on May 24, 2012 wrote to the Director General, Government Information Department of Sri Lanka that he endorses BBCs Colombo reporter Elmo Fernando<\/a><\/span>\u2019s interest free loan application to purchase a motor car.<\/p>\n

In the letter he said; \u201cMr Fernando is a permanent employee of the BBC. He had been working for over twenty years and is paid a monthly wage of \u00a3750 ( Seven hundred and fifty pounds). I recommend Mr Fernando\u2019s application to purchase a motor car under the above scheme. ( Read the original letter below)<\/p>\n

Section 3 of the BBC Editorial Guidelines<\/a><\/span> says; \u201cWe must not knowingly and materially mislead our audiences with our content.\u201d \u201cNow the question is whether BBC editors are allowed to mislead public and newspaper editors in official correspondence\u201d one BBC ethics expert told Colombo Telegraph<\/p>\n

Two of BBC journalists, BBC World Service producer\u00a0Chandana Keerthi Bandara<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and the Colombo Reporter\u00a0Elmo Fernando<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0applied Rs. 1,200,000\/-each by way of ten year interest free loans from the state banks to purchase cars or vans, where the interest\u00a0will be paid by the Treasury using tax payer money<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

*Photo courtesy: Robert Sharp \/ English PEN<\/em><\/p>\n

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