{"id":71207,"date":"2017-10-31T22:47:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T04:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71207"},"modified":"2017-10-31T04:59:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T11:59:29","slug":"us-companys-sri-lanka-2017-country-review-challenged-full-of-errors-disinformation-says-global-sl-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/10\/31\/us-companys-sri-lanka-2017-country-review-challenged-full-of-errors-disinformation-says-global-sl-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"US company\u2019s \u201cSri Lanka 2017 Country Review\u201d challenged: full of errors, disinformation says Global SL Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ranjith Soysa SPOKESPERSON Media release<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Sri Lanka 2017 Country Review,\u201d one of many country reports\u00a0\u00a0 published by CountryWatch, a prominent US-based information provider to universities, government agencies, libraries etc., is so full of disinformation, errors, and outdated information that the Global Sri Lankan Forum (GSLF) decided to re-examine and discuss some of the highly obvious misconstructions.<\/p>\n

The Forum, with the assistance of the Sri Lanka-US Political Affairs Council (SLUPAC) of California, has published a blog<\/a> which highlights the noteworthy errors\/disinformation in the report published online in May 2017 with comments on each.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Forum sent a statement to the universities and libraries that are known subscribers of CountryWatch reports cautioning them that despite CountryWatch\u2019s claims of the Country Review series being up to date,\u201d some critical statistics, such as economic indices, are woefully outdated.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was pointed out that the fact that President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s name has been misspelled (as Rajpaksa) 69 times throughout the report is, by itself, a clear indication of the lack of editorial oversight.<\/p>\n

It falls short of the standards required of a publication that is providing information to universities, schools, libraries, and government agencies,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

The 397-page online report titled Sri Lanka 2017 Country Review\u201d attempts at providing a panoramic insight into developments in Sri Lanka beginning with the island\u2019s early history and including the LTTE war and recent political changes.<\/p>\n

CountryWatch, based in Texas, introduces itself on its website as [A]n information provider for corporations, government agencies, universities, schools, libraries and individuals needing up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world.\u201d\u00a0 It describes its staff as having extensive international business experience and members of the editorial department as coming from strong academic backgrounds.<\/p>\n

The blog may be accessed at: https\/\/countrywatchslreport.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Ranjith Soysa
\nSPOKESPERSON \u2013 GSLF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ranjith Soysa SPOKESPERSON Media release Sri Lanka 2017 Country Review,\u201d one of many country reports\u00a0\u00a0 published by CountryWatch, a prominent US-based information provider to universities, government agencies, libraries etc., is so full of disinformation, errors, and outdated information that the Global Sri Lankan Forum (GSLF) decided to re-examine and discuss some of the highly obvious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71207","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=71207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}