Monday, November 28, 2016

Govt. considers measures to ‘discipline’ the media

Govt. considers measures to ‘discipline’ the media
Sunday, November 27, 2016
  • Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe and other ministers highly critical of print, electronic and social media coverage, but Mangala holds counterview
  • National Security Council focuses attention on religious extremist groups; intelligence chief identifies more than 20
  • Sweeping laws on national policy for accelerated economic development; wide-powered agency for development and trade, five provincial boards
By Our Political Editor

It seemed ironic that it should come in the wake of the jolt the mainstream media in the United States received after Republican Donald Trump won the November presidential elections. Both the electronic and the print media, almost altogether, spoke of a victory for rival Hillary Rodham Clinton. Most were very supportive of her. They have come in for a lot of flak now and their shares have dipped in the stock markets. They are now re-thinking and re-building the journalistic enterprise.
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