{"id":119571,"date":"2021-10-25T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T23:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119571"},"modified":"2021-10-25T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T23:12:25","slug":"manipulative-reporting-and-rights-of-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/25\/manipulative-reporting-and-rights-of-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulative Reporting and Rights of the Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Palitha Mapatuna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Watching recently a particular news channel, it seemed obvious that the reporting on the opening of schools was calculated to show the authorities in a bad light; the schools in which the attendance was low were focussed upon, whereas the others were almost entirely ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that this type of reporting is not only unethical\nbut abusive of the rights of the public to be provided with an impartial view\non matters of vital concern to them. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it seems that, for some reason or other, partiality\nin reporting is not rare in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palitha Mapatuna Watching recently a particular news channel, it seemed obvious that the reporting on the opening of schools was calculated to show the authorities in a bad light; the schools in which the attendance was low were focussed upon, whereas the others were almost entirely ignored. It seems that this type of reporting is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119571","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=119571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}