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[The Hindu]
Sri Lankan radio retracts report
By V.S. Sambandan
Monday, Jan 10, 2005

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According to official sources, while the SLBC's news broadcast did not carry the news report, a talk show hosted by the station to discuss contents in daily newspapers referred to a report in The Island , known for its hardline and anti-LTTE position.
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இதுதொடர்பாக ஸ்ரீலங்காசார் செய்திப்பத்திரிகைகளுக்கே தெரிந்த விபரம்

[ColomboPage]
LTTE criticizes state media, says Prabhakaran is alive
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Sunday, January 9, 2005, 15:41 GMT.

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The LTTE was responding to a news item quoting Navy Commander Vice Admiral Daya Sandagiri that was broadcasted by the government-owned Sri Lankan Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) Saturday morning. The report had claimed the LTTE's leader and its Intelligence Chief were among the dead or missing.
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*"RAMWatch certainly knows that quoting unidentified sources is not uncommon. However, when a particular publication quotes unidentified souces very frequently while reporting a particular community related news, it is worthwhile to suspect the statistically_very_high frequency. This evokes any rational reader's inquisity to investigate honesty, integrety and trustworthiness of the souces and as the result, agenda of the news publishing organisation.

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