The fall of Azzam Ameen

[pj57]

Journalists talking to politicians as well as other members of society of various status is nothing unusual, it's part of their job but here the question is the unusual and partisan conversation that took place between AA and RR. Both of them were discussing to manipulate certain news that could mislead the people and be useful to one of the candidates at the Presidential election. AA hasn't addressed that issue at all in his statement which I would call very feeble/lame.

[mugatiya]

I agree 100% . He hasn't addressed it nor has he made any sort of apology or shown any remorse. That's pretty poor.

I can see that he is back to just posting news and doing his job on FB and Twitter... probably knows that his story will be forgotten in the next big news cycle..so pretending like there is nothing to see here

[pj57]

(01-28-2020, 01:28 AM)mugatiya Wrote:  I agree 100% . He hasn't addressed it nor has he made any sort of apology or shown any remorse. That's pretty poor.

I can see that he is back to just posting news and doing his job on FB and Twitter... probably knows that his story will be forgotten in the next big news cycle..so pretending like there is nothing to see here

True, knowing our people this story will be forgotten in the next big news cycle and he would be hoping to get back to journalism in the future but his credibility could be questioned by people who make it a point to remember things like this.

[rsk19]

How on earth did this private (?phone) conversation go public?

[rsk19]

(01-22-2020, 09:43 AM)Ishan Wrote:  

(01-21-2020, 11:55 PM)pj57 Wrote:  I can't remember exactly what it was but he seemed to be politically biased. He has the freedom to support any political party but as an "independent" journalist he should have been more careful with his words.

he did not say anything bad personally about the Easter attacks but BBC did and he didn't correct it straight away ..

Yes you’re right. BBC interviewed this pro-LTTE guy called Thusiyan Nandakumar who implied that Sinhala Buddhists were responsible for the attacks. Here’s a link:

https://theprint.in/world/online-petition-bbc-report-sri-lanka-blasts-blame-sinhalese-buddhists/227983/

Azzam was blamed for not highlighting the fact that this was misinformation.

[mugatiya]

(01-28-2020, 06:41 PM)rsk19 Wrote:  How on earth did this private (?phone) conversation go public?

All apart of #ranjangate