{"id":69743,"date":"2013-01-15T17:40:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T17:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=69743"},"modified":"2013-01-26T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T17:11:14","slug":"video-my-sons-need-a-mom-not-a-heroine-frederica-jansz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-my-sons-need-a-mom-not-a-heroine-frederica-jansz\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8216;My Sons Need A Mom, Not A Heroine&#8217; &#8211; Frederica Jansz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/listeningpost\/2013\/01\/201311512210128360.html\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was definitely a slow and steady slide into a stifling reporting that the government does not like. Since the end of the war in May 2009, there has been a very definite slide, a very definite take over, or state control, of all media outlets, and that includes independently, or privately owned media. The\u00a0<em>Sunday Leader<\/em>\u00a0actually is a classic example of what happened.&#8221; the former Sunday Leader editor <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Frederica+Jansz&amp;x=7&amp;y=6\">Frederica Jansz<\/a><\/span> told Aljazeera\u00a0<em>Listening Post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Aljazeera she said; &#8220;The level of intimidation, the harassment has continued, they have continued to call journalists traitors. Lawyers appearing for me, and the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sunday+Leader&amp;x=4&amp;y=3\">Sunday Leader<\/a><\/em><\/span>, were termed, or called terrorists and traitors.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">And you know, in the back drop of all that had happened to me &#8230;. I was told, and I actually began to finally believe it, that my life was very seriously under threat. 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