{"id":88660,"date":"2013-05-26T12:36:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T07:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=88660"},"modified":"2013-06-01T12:19:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T06:49:56","slug":"state-media-knew-of-monks-self-immolation-plan-in-advance-and-filmed-it-secretary-media-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/state-media-knew-of-monks-self-immolation-plan-in-advance-and-filmed-it-secretary-media-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"State Media Knew Of Monk&#8217;s Self-Immolation Plan In Advance And Filmed It &#8211; Secretary Media Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident of the Buddhist monk\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bohowatte+Indararatna&amp;x=13&amp;y=6\">Bohowatte Indararatna<\/a><\/span>\u00a0thero&#8217;s self-immolation\u00a0has sparked a journalistic ethics issue Media Ministry Secretary <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Charitha+Herath&amp;x=5&amp;y=5\">Charitha Herath<\/a><\/span> told the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/130526\/news\/thera-succumbs-to-injuries-at-national-hospital-46254.html\">Sunday Times<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88661\" style=\"width: 102px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/state-media-knew-of-monks-self-immolation-plan-in-advance-and-filmed-it-secretary-media-ministry\/charitha-herath\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88661\" class=\" wp-image-88661   \" title=\"Charitha Herath\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Charitha-Herath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Charitha-Herath.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Charitha-Herath-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-88661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charitha Herath<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the Sunday Times, investigations by Media Ministry has revealed that the monk had, before setting himself on fire told the local correspondent of a State media institution of his plans to do so. The correspondent had videoed the entire event. The material had been aired both in State run and private television networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to ask the media to draw the line when it comes to such issues. As a result of the correspondent in question keeping the incident a secret until he videoed it, the life of a monk is now in danger,&#8221; he told Sundya Times. Media Ministry Secretary\u00a0said his Ministry was going into the ethical issues in this regard. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to be restrictive but the media, both State run and private, must know their limits in cases like this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Related stories;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"End Cattle Slaughter: Monk Who Set Himself On Fire Passes Away\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/end-cattle-slaughter-monk-who-set-himself-on-fire-passes-away\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">End Cattle Slaughter: Monk Who Set Himself On Fire Passes Away<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"End Cattle Slaughter: Sri Lanka\u2019s First Attempt At Self-Immolation By A Buddhist Monk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/end-cattle-slaughter-sri-lankas-first-attempt-at-self-immolation-by-a-buddhist-monk\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">End Cattle Slaughter: Sri Lanka\u2019s First Attempt At Self-Immolation By A Buddhist Monk<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":88661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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