The Sunday Times reports that Sri Lanka’s national television channel allocated over a minute of its main news broadcast to cover the passing of the mother of its chairman, Gihan de Silva.
The coverage included footage of the body at a private funeral parlor, the procession to the cemetery, and the final rites, all accompanied by somber music. The paper questions the relevance of this news to the general public, as opposed to the chairman, his family, and other close associates.