Channel 4 Documentaries are like Star Wars movies: Nonis
Monday, 18 November 2013 01:17
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Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the UK Dr. Chris Nonis yesterday rubbished Channel 4 documentaries about the final stages of the conflict in the island and said the broadcaster was never taken seriously in Britain.
“Their documentaries are like the Star Wars movies. They are highly emotive, but they are not examples of responsible journalism,” he explained.
“Channel 4 is an extremely marginal TV company. Many people do not even do not even bother to look at Channel 4,” Nonis told a press briefing at the BMICH last afternoon.
Dr. Nonis said that the Channel 4 films were “peripheral documentaries” featuring unauthenticated and uncorroborated footage. “And not a second of the footage has been filmed by a Channel 4 journalist,” he explained.
The Lankan Envoy said such documentaries only end up retarding the reconciliation process in Sri Lanka. “Making money off documentaries is fine as long as it does not serve to hurt innocent people. When it does, it is wrong to make money from it. That just becomes the blood money of terrorists,” he said.
