Something worrying in the politics of social communication in Sri Lankan society right now:
There are certain organisations that are not directly organisations of actual communications workers (as journalists, news managers, producers, printers) that are today active and intervening among existing (and barely surviving since the recent political repression) such communications workers organisations and attempting to mobilise these communications workers' organisations in ways that suit those intervening groups' agendas, and, worse, conduct that mobilisation in ways that do not obtain a democratic consensus and, even worse, attempt to impose their content on these manipulated communications workers' organisations.
The main, traditionally existing communications organisations, namely, the Sri Lanka Working Journalists' Association, Free Media Movement, Federation of Media Employees' Trade Unions, Tamil Media Alliance, Muslim Media Forum, South Asian Free Media Association (Sri Lanka Chapter) and the Sri Lanka Press Institute. Attempts have been made in the past two and more years, by these other intervening groups to manipulate the above-mentioned seven organisations in a most duplicitous and undemocratic manner. Ironically, these intervening groups are attempting to hijack some of the key themes of rights activism of these above-listed seven organisations and then obtain the endorsement of the listed seven organisations for their chosen topics/subjects.
It is clear that these intervening groups are STILL trying these tactics.
THE ABOVE-LISTED SEVEN COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS' ORGANISATIONS WILL NOT BE SUBJECTED TO SUCH MANIPULATIONS AND WILL NOT COOPERATE IN SUCH UNDEMOCRATIC AND DIVISIVE MANOEUVRES.
There are certain organisations that are not directly organisations of actual communications workers (as journalists, news managers, producers, printers) that are today active and intervening among existing (and barely surviving since the recent political repression) such communications workers organisations and attempting to mobilise these communications workers' organisations in ways that suit those intervening groups' agendas, and, worse, conduct that mobilisation in ways that do not obtain a democratic consensus and, even worse, attempt to impose their content on these manipulated communications workers' organisations.
The main, traditionally existing communications organisations, namely, the Sri Lanka Working Journalists' Association, Free Media Movement, Federation of Media Employees' Trade Unions, Tamil Media Alliance, Muslim Media Forum, South Asian Free Media Association (Sri Lanka Chapter) and the Sri Lanka Press Institute. Attempts have been made in the past two and more years, by these other intervening groups to manipulate the above-mentioned seven organisations in a most duplicitous and undemocratic manner. Ironically, these intervening groups are attempting to hijack some of the key themes of rights activism of these above-listed seven organisations and then obtain the endorsement of the listed seven organisations for their chosen topics/subjects.
It is clear that these intervening groups are STILL trying these tactics.
THE ABOVE-LISTED SEVEN COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS' ORGANISATIONS WILL NOT BE SUBJECTED TO SUCH MANIPULATIONS AND WILL NOT COOPERATE IN SUCH UNDEMOCRATIC AND DIVISIVE MANOEUVRES.
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