Monday, June 15, 2009

Review: Sri Lankan Journalism, Its Fact-Finding, and the Internet

by Gogol G.

Groundviews did further digging into the Sunday Times' story about Bob Rae, and its shoddy attempt to use Wikipedia as a source to paint Bob Rae as an LTTE supporter.

As expected, what Groundviews found was a trail of facts that all point to the dubiousness of the original Sunday Times article. This report from Groundviews is commendable for taking the extra step to investigate this.

However, I'd like to point out and correct something quite glaring.
Read more!

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Opinion: Wordpress Suspending Our Blog and the Larger Context

Voices in Exile noticed on June 10 that Wordpress had suspended our blog, and our blog said that the site had been suspended due to a violation of the terms of service. We are not sure on which day the blog was suspended. Wordpress suspended our account and did not notify us about any concerns before, at the time of, or any time after the suspension until we notified them. This is very unfortunate, since we see ourselves as a forum for the free expression of people's opinions and for intelligent dialogue on all of the confusing happenings around Sri Lanka and the world. We contacted Wordpress regarding this incident, and telling them that our blog holds itself to high standards of content and openness of dialogue. Here is the response from them, one day later:

Read more!