{"id":110496,"date":"2021-01-07T17:23:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110496"},"modified":"2021-01-07T17:23:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T00:23:42","slug":"to-the-attention-of-the-sri-lankan-media-minister-teacher-stuck-on-a-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/07\/to-the-attention-of-the-sri-lankan-media-minister-teacher-stuck-on-a-horn\/","title":{"rendered":"To the attention of the Sri Lankan Media Minister: \u2018Teacher stuck on a horn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <em>Rohana R. Wasala<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Watching\nthe 11:55 A.M. Hiru News\/January 7, 2021 (Live Stream) I was dismayed by a news\nticker in Sinhala characters that flashed intermittently during a news item\nthat covered a press briefing presided by His Eminence Malcom Cardinal Ranjit,\nthe Archbishop of Colombo, who was raising concerns about some environmental\ndegradation taking place in a wetland area in the name of development. The\nSinhalese language crawler ran: angaranda&nbsp; guruvaraya madya hamuve\npaevasu adahas\u201d (Views expressed by the Archbishop before the media). However,\nthe correct Sinhala equivalent for \u2018Archbishop\u2019 which is meant here is\n\u2018agaradaguruhimi\u2019, not \u2018angaranda guruvaraya\u2019. The second is mocking and\nirreverential towards His Eminence, whom all Sri Lankans hold in high esteem as\na courageous religious leader who always rises above politics in speaking up\nfor their welfare and their interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Angaranda\nguruvaraya\u2019 literally means not Archbishop, but \u2018teacher stuck on a horn\u2019. The\nword \u2018guruvaraya\u2019 is disrespectful in this context. What the person wants to\nachieve by this nasty gesture\/joke may be left for the intelligent reader to\nguess. This reminded me of a similar outrage committed by a TV cameraman during\nthe live broadcast of the ceremonial oath taking of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa\nin the sacred precincts of Ruvanmelisaeya at Anuradhapura in 2019: the\ncameraman flashed a momentary closeup of the face of the king Dutugemunu statue\nthere caught in a really scary perspective. No doubt, many viewers felt\nunexpectedly shaken by a horrible visage on that auspicious occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Media\ninstitutions must discipline the uncultured individuals who are responsible for\nsuch dastardly acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\n<em>Rohana R. Wasala<\/em> &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohana R. Wasala \u00a0\u00a0 Watching the 11:55 A.M. Hiru News\/January 7, 2021 (Live Stream) I was dismayed by a news ticker in Sinhala characters that flashed intermittently during a news item that covered a press briefing presided by His Eminence Malcom Cardinal Ranjit, the Archbishop of Colombo, who was raising concerns about some environmental degradation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rohana-r-wasala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}