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Sri Lankan minister warns against misusing media freedom

Sri Lanka’s finance minister warned journalists on the island from abusing the apparent environment of media freedom that he claimed was in place under the current government.

Daily Mirror said Ravi Karunanayake stated stories should not be written to fulfil “certain agendas” and quoted the minister as saying, “attacking us through the media is fine but they should not be used to harm the economy of the country". "Recently, there were several misleading articles published by media against the finance ministry," he added. 

The minister’s comments came at an event in Colombo hosted by the finance ministry and mass media and the information ministry, launching a programme to provide motorcycles and houses to journalists at subsidised prices.

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(01 Mar
2015)

 

 

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