Reuters continues with its misinformation Campaign in Sri Lanka

There was a sea confrontation near Jaffna today. This is how Reuters covered it.

Total Words (including the heading) = 223

Total words for the Sri Lankan Military side story = 136 (61%)

Total words for the Tamil Rebels side story (Taken from Tamilnet) = 60 (27%)

Total words which says Rebels not available to comment = 20 (9%)

By the way Reuters do not have reporters in Kilinochchi the Tamil Rebel capital. They only have reporters in Colombo the Sri Lankan government capital

Military's story has been given complete prominence. The heading fully covers the Military's claim almost as a fact although clearly conflicting reports emerged almost at the same time.

One reporter was called Ranga Sirilal probably a Sinhalese. Then the editor was Jeremy Laurence probably a westerner.

Most of the news papers and other news media would pick this report up from the Reuters and further edit it so that only Sri Lankan military's claim is heard loud and clear to the outside world.

So eventually a picture is successfully painted in the West that Tamil rebel got a beating although the fact is most likely complete opposite. Also an opinion would be manufactured in the west that shells from Tamil rebels killed civilians when in fact it could be the Military's shelling probably killed the civilians.

So much for the lofty ideals of free media and objective factual reporting. In fact a possibly a total lie is successfully implanted in the west as fact mainly Reuters. Keep it up Reuters!

Reuters Story:

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSCOL165550

TamilNet version of the same event:

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=25807

BTW, AFP report was more closer to facts giving more prominence to the rebel side story. See the link below:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkqf6N9l8UzH3Oxk-rzsia0jr2KQ

So no complaints yet on the AFP;-)