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| Saturday, 29 May 2004 |
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Public wide screen TV launched at Fort Railway Station by Ranga Chandraratne Former Minister of Information and Media Reginald Cooray speaking yesterday at the official launch of the first public wide screen television at the Fort Railway Station, said the State media should be the echo of the spirit of the nation, its culture and its history. "We have to make an enormous effort to salvage the State media from the deplorable state it had slumped to during the last regime", he said. He said during the past two years, the State media had spread the message that people should be satisfied only with food and alcohol and they should not request development in education,cultural and moral values etc. The State media was also and dropped to a very low level that it propagate the message that the people of this country always behave madly, during that dark period. "They made every effort to create a generation devoid of sense of their roots and of their identity so that they could easily control them. Therefore, what we want to do is to adopt anything to suit our values taking only the principles," Cooray said. The installation and planning of the public wide screen television and radio was done by a team headed by Deputy General Manager, W.P.A.M. Wijesinghe of the Engineering Division of ITN. All the facilities were provided by the Station Superintendent, K.N. Wijesinghe. ITN Chairman Newton Gunarathne, SLBC Chairman, Hudson Samarasinghe and Railway General Manager Priyal de Silva exchanged copies of the agreement. National List MP Mervyn Silva, ITN Chairman Newton Gunaratne and SLBC Chairman Hudson Samarasinghe also spoke. Ven. Bandarawela Sumana Thera, ANCL Chairman Janadasa Peiris, Deputy Minister of Transport Lasantha Alagiyawanna and musicians G.S.B. Rani Perera and Ishaq Baig were also present. |
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