IF YOU CAN’T SPEAK, THEN LEAK -The Sunday Leader

While The Sunday Leader is encouraged to see WikiLeaks picking up where the Western media fell off, we wonder where the leakers are in our own island.
America, the country exposed by the latest leaks, is already one of the most transparent in the world. What of Sri Lanka, where so much goes on behind closed doors, or worse, everyone in the Colombo elite knows who is giving and whose is taking.
Sri Lanka is no stranger to the jungle telegraph, the unseen newswire that tells the shocking truth, mixed with a healthy leavening of interesting lies. Our public news, however, is often a set of glorified press releases and sacrificial lambs. In America the press has fallen over in their desire for access and corporate profits, but the Sri Lankan media remains down out of desire for physical and corporate survival.
IF YOU CAN’T SPEAK, THEN LEAK

WikiLeaks? Rajapaksas Can Keep Cool, Unless…-The Sunday Leader

WikiLeaks? Rajapaksas Can Keep Cool, Unless…The Sunday Leader - Full Story
President Rajapaksa’s London visit with his historic second address before the Oxford University Student Union handled by the London based Bell-Pottinger group’s PR outfit, in a bid to boost his rusty international image, ran into massive “war crimes” protests from Heathrow Airport to Oxford, compelling the Oxford Student Union to cancel the oration on December 2, “on security reasons”. The cancellation ruffled the Presidential confidence so much, they allowed an employee with Bell-Pottinger, to release their official statement, through her private e-mail address.
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