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August 11, 2025 – August 15, 2025
The TV coverage of the issue The data on television coverage is based on the monitoring of the primetime news telecasts of selected Sinhala TV channels uploaded to YouTube.
August 11, 2025 – August 17, 2025
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August 11, 2025 – August 17, 2025
This week’s cartoons
උතුරු නැගෙනහිර හර්තාලය – සාර්ථකද? අසාර්ථකද? 🪧
ITAK පක්ෂය විසින් කැඳවනු ලැබූ හර්තාලය පිළිබඳව 2025 අගෝස්තු 19 දින පළවූ සිංහල සහ දෙමළ පුවත්පත්වල මුල් පිටු සහ 2025 අගෝස්තු 18 දින රාත්රී රූපවාහිනී ප්රධාන ප්රවෘත්ති විකාශයන්හි සිරස්තල තුළ වාර්තා කර තිබුණු ආකාරය පහත පෙන්වා දී ඇත....
Provincial councils: One system, three strands
Ulugetenne’s character and conduct, and relationship with the Rajapaksas.
Major stories in the Sinhala and Tamil press: Aug.11 – 17
Highlights the differences and nuances in reporting between Sinhala and Tamil newspapers. Over the past week, the Sinhala and Tamil press converged on four main stories. These stories were: (i) plans to revoke the privileges afforded to former presidents; (ii) the...
Hartal in the North & East: Successful or unsuccessful? 🪧
Here is how the Sinhala & Tamil front pages of newspapers & headlines of TV coverage reported on the hartal called by the ITAK 📺📰
Calls to stage a hartal in the North and East
Here is how Sinhala primetime news on August 17 covered the calls to stage a hartal in the North and East over the death of a youth in Muthaiyankattu and the continued presence of army camps (Based on selected Sinhala primetime television news broadcasts...
“cheennu” (චීන්නු)?
Why is that the term, “Chinese national” (චීන ජාතිකයා/ජාතිකයන්) is recommended over “cheennu” (චීන්නු)? In Sinhala news reporting, the term “Cheenu” is often used to describe Chinese nationals, particularly in association with antisocial or illegal activities....