CPA Media Monitoring in 2009

The following articles were published in the Lankadeepa newspaper over the course of 2009. However, due to growing pressure and the nature of the content monitored and analysed, Lankadeepa refused to run the column, which was subsequently published on CPA’s Vikalpa website.

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• Article 1 (The unseen floodwaters of the North, 7th December 2008)
  
• Article 2 (Children stories cry out to the world, 14th December 2008)
  
• Article 3 (The tragedy of the displaced, 21st December 2008)
  
• Article 4 (Gunfire and exams for students in Vanni, 28th December 2008)
  
• Article 5 (The displaced in Vavuniya, 11th January 2009)
  
• Article 6 (The dead amongst the celebrations, 18th January 2009)
  
• Article 7 (The fearful media, 1st February 2009)
  
• Article 8 (The lives of the displaced, 8th January 2009)
• Article 9 (Life in the Vanni, 15th January 2009)
  
• Article 10 (The victims of war and the ICRC, 1st March 2009)
  
• Article 11 (Karamaitya and the Vanni, 8th March 2009)
  
• Article 12 (The death of a humaniarian worker, 15th March 2009)
  
• Article 13 (What happened to the Bin Tan ship?, 22nd March 2009)
  
• Article 14 (Navi Pillay and the media, 29th March 2009)

Lankadeepa, for reasons best known to them but unsurprising given the unofficial media censorship and violence against independent media, stopped publishing our column after March.

• Article 15 (Sri Lanka in the UN Security Council)
  
• Article 16 (How the ship Vanagaman set set in media waters)
  
• Article 17 (The Humanitarian war and the media war)
  
• Article 18 (The responses of envoys and the response to envoys)
  
• Article 19 (Channel 4’s news and humanitarian coverage)
  
• Article 20 (Peoples only left with their breath)
• Article 21 (The end of the doctors)
• Article 22 (The displaced of two districts)
• Article 23 (Media reporting trends of the final war)
• Article 24 (Key facets of humanitarian reportage in the media)
• Article 25 (The rights of the displaced at the Supreme Court)
• Article 26 (The resurgence of politics subsumed by war)
• Article 27 (Cartoons against media censorship)
• Article 28 (Without a right to information?)
• Article 29 (A media without senses)
• Article 30 (A censorship that didn’t end with the war)
• Article 31 (Media witness to Police brutality)
• Article 32 (Channel 4 and our media)
• Article 33 (The weight of the chains put on Tissainayagam)
• Article 34 (Tissa, Lanka newspaper and the Prevention of Terrorism Act)
• Article 35 (IDPs: From one prison to the next)
• Article 36 (Children unseen by the world)
• Article 37 (Women in war time)
• Article 38 (Media that did not use Mike Foster as a source)