IT for lasting peace

Sri Lanka’s progress recognized in UN ratings:

Sri Lanka has come a long way in a short time in the modernization of its public sector. Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga, tells Robin Hicks that a bright future awaits a ‘smart island’ whose leaders believe in the transformative, peace-bringing powers of technology.

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The tale of poor Ben Arnoldy

Ben Arnoldy is a staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor and not someone getting something off his chess in the manner of someone writing in opinion to the editor. Staff writers are in general required to have or acquire more than a smattering of knowledge on the subjects they touch on. It is in this sense that Arnoldy’s recent piece titled ‘Sri Lanka floods provide chance for government, Tamil Tiger reconciliation’ raises questions regarding the magazine’s integrity, commitment to upholding journalistic ethics and affirming the first part of that well-known adage ‘facts are sacred, comment free’.

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Mischievous opinion and ulterior motives

Communication has been the most dominant means of influencing and shaping a society. Approximately in and around 720 BC the Greek alphabet reflected on the Greeks to mull over and acquire astuteness. Writing allows the author of a story to register what he writes in a reader’s mind exactly he intends it to be. Thus, communication media have influenced human existence from time immemorial.

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