Let’s file a case against BBC and its news reporter

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Crucial Sri Lanka peace talks due: "The government, meanwhile, is concerned about losing its international credibility."

Did government inform BBC that they are concerned of loosing credibility? This is not a quoted text from any source. The above statement is from the BBC reporter.

I am not a law expert. I wonder whether the government can take any kind of a legal action against BBC for making totally false statement and misleading the public.

I know that the above statement is not so serious. But they have published several false news items against the Sri lankan government before and escaped.

It is true that media should have freedom to report. But do they have the right to manipulate the situation the way they are doing ? How come they escape everytime without any responsibility?

I think the Sri Lankan law experts living in UK should study this situation and find a way to make a case similar to the Dr Kelly case against the BBC. It will give a good publicity to the lawyers too.

What BBC repeatedly highlighting as their excuse for lying and reporting false news is, the biasness of govt media and LTTE media. I am not trying to say Govt or LTTE media is always reporting the correct picture. Whatever they report, it is local media reporting local news.

Here we have a situation where the BBC, one of the leading UK based organization keep on reporting adverse news against a democratically elected government.

The famous Dr. Kelly’s Govt vs BBC case, BBC was proven wrong about the way they reported the news and as a result many had to resign. I think it is right time for the government of Sri Lanka or any Sri Lankan living in UK to look in to the possibilities of making a case against BBC.

At least it will provide us a platform to put our case forward and make the BBC listeners aware about the situation.

Unfortunately I have to blog here and no time to file cases :)