The Daily News today published an
article headed “Public Servants minimum Basic Salary to be doubled!” but see
link, nowhere in the article was this alluded to. So is it lies to draw
attention to the article that has nothing really to say, or something by a
mischievous reporter to put the Editor in trouble, or to put the Minister on
the spot or both.
Independent Journalism is NOT such headlines.
If it was not in the body of the article I must at least assume it was a
downright lie.
It is time the Daily News gets its act
together and FIRST “REPORT RESPONSIBLY” otherwise we don’t have any hope.
It was interesting that on Monday, the
Chief Priest of the Gangarama Temple told the PM that the Lake House must
revert to be an independent organization OUT of Government Control, no matter
what Government. This to the PM, from whose family the Srimavo Government
nationalized the Newspapers, as she felt they were reporting against her Govt.
Without Independent reporting for so
long, our Journalists have failed in their responsibility for OBJECTIVE
reporting and are colloquially known to write for the “arackcku botale”.
I purposely put the headline to the
article, to show how misleading it is. However I stand by the line, in that it
is the ONLY way for Sri Lanka to get back an efficient Public Service which is
too overloaded by free loaders to be able to do the job effectively.
There are so many anomalous situations,
in the Country. Firstly we have 250,000 job vacancies with no one to do them.
Jobs are going overseas, with factories closing because our wage rates are too
high, for those industries to be profitable, and added to that they are unable
to attract labor. Then Companies are requesting the Govt. for permission to
hire foreign labor to work, as otherwise they will not be able to complete
their projects on time! Is it that our workers are less productive too? Then we
have 600,000 three wheeler drivers, wasting their time in street corners,
taking a few hires a day. Uber can throw 80% out of business, with the
remainder, earning Rs100,000 a month, which in time will do away with polluting
three wheelers and replace with electric taxis, that will both be safer, pollution
free, and less numerous causing less traffic!
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