Sunday, December 4, 2011

http://www.defence.lk/news/pdf/Appalling%20Journalism.pdf

Appalling Journalism- Jon Snow and Channel 4 News on Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Media Watch, a project operates under "Engage Sri Lanka" which has been established to protect British business interests, and to encourage British commercial involvements in Sri Lanka, has recently released a publication called "Appalling Journalism- Jon Snow and Channel 4 News on Sri Lanka". It discusses on the lapse in journalistic standards apparent in Channel 4's "Killing Fields" documentary video which appalled fellow British journalists in the country.
well-known British journalist A A Gill was particularly critical on the issue and he said,
"The channel has accumulated a large collection of samizdat amateur footage from mobile phones and video cameras - mostly unattributed and uncorroborated. It mixes this footage with comment from unnamed sources with distorted voices and shadowed faces. And human rights lawyers. It was brutal, it was shocking, but it wasn't journalism. Not a second of this has been shot by Channel 4; none of the eyewitness accounts comes from journalists."
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