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In our society today, it is almost impossible to not know what is going on around the country, as well as around the world, without getting information from some form of media. There’s no doubting the fact that the media is the main source of information about what’s going on in the world, but how this information is presented, and then observed, by the people is where doubts may, and should, come to pass. The media tends to present information with certain biases that are clearer than the act ... This paper is the property of findfreeessays.com Copyright © 2002-2003


Sri Lanka has experienced a crisis of constructing and maintaining a national identity. Tensions between the two major ethnic groups, the Sinhalese and the Tamils, fostered in part by specific colonial policies and fanned by prejudiced elements on both sides, have led to bloody conflicts which Chattopadhya (1994) reports to have resulted in the death of over 50,000 people over the last 16 years. This cases stu...