How 'nine zero five' national rupavahini did not feel Nalin's death!
Criticisms have cropped up regarding the manner in which the birth home national rupavahini of rupavahini journalist Hema Nalin Karunaratna's sudden demise was reported.
When this news was given prominence among leading news of other private channels on fifth of June when the death was reported, the national rupavahini main news broadcast which commences at 8.00
in the night had after finishing broadcasting all important news reported this particular piece of news around 8.28 and had not even reported that this was an unanticipated departure of the journalist.
It was the national rupavahini where he carried out duties for close upon two decades from the year 1983 to 2000. He strived to grip the audience by dedicating himself with creative work and was in the lead among the handful of distinguished mediamen who were created from national rupavahini. When matters were such, the fact that not giving some prominence for his demise and his departure at an unexpected moment to which the national rupavahini has not felt as something of news value is what criticisms have been aimed at. Shown below is an opinion which circulated in the social media