{"id":47828,"date":"2015-09-14T04:24:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T11:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47828"},"modified":"2015-09-14T04:24:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T11:24:03","slug":"news-reporting-by-bbc-and-other-radio-and-television-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/09\/14\/news-reporting-by-bbc-and-other-radio-and-television-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"News &#8211; reporting by BBC and other Radio and Television channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Mr. Charles Haviland<br \/>\nNews<br \/>\nBBC<\/p>\n<p>Dear Sir<br \/>\nIn your capacity as a media scribe I thought you might be interested in at least noting alternate points of view and be prepared to stomach opinions different to what you fancy.<\/p>\n<p>Large numbers of people particularly in non &#8211; European countries tolerate BBC reports and views which are largely euro-centric, pro- christian and unsympathetic to struggles of Asian and African peoples to de-colonise their societies and more importantly their minds.<\/p>\n<p>These peoples find themselves force &#8211; fed with news and views day after day by powerful news media such as BBC and CNN which defend largely the interests and thinking of the policy makers of the Christian West, the Al &#8211; Jazeera which performs a similar service for the Islamic world while the voice of the Buddhists and Hindus remain largely unheard in the international arena due to lack of equivalent Broadcasting institutions.<\/p>\n<p>It is the notable absence or relative silence of the Buddhist point of view ( <strong><u>almost all<\/u><\/strong> mainstream English language newspapers in Asia have Christian Editors or are in the pay of pro &#8211; West NGOs) that have spurred people like us to take up the challenge to give voice to Buddhist concerns, however enfeebled.<\/p>\n<p>We have nothing against you personally and really wish you well in your life.<\/p>\n<p>But until the inequities in the World Information Order are addressed and corrected we of the Buddhist world will have no choice but to use emails and web sites with limited scope to articulate the Buddhist point of view which are usually suppressed by the mainstream english language news papers both in Sri Lanka and overseas.<\/p>\n<p>I will remove your name and email address from my list of email addresses at your request.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However I am copying this post to a few others who have an interest in the subject matter and are entitled to know why we are championing alternate points of view.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards<\/p>\n<p>Senaka Weeraratna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Senaka Weeraratna Mr. Charles Haviland News BBC Dear Sir In your capacity as a media scribe I thought you might be interested in at least noting alternate points of view and be prepared to stomach opinions different to what you fancy. Large numbers of people particularly in non &#8211; European countries tolerate BBC reports and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47828","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=47828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}