Report recommends 20th-Century solutions for 21st-Century media challenges
As a believer in the value of public consultation and peer review, it was with much expectation that I started reading the voluminous (284 pages) report by the Secretariat for Media Reforms, entitled ‘Rebuilding Public Trust: An Assessment of the Media Industry and Profession in Sri Lanka’. But I was disappointed by its lack of understanding of the momentous changes occurring in the “attention economy” and by its trite recommendations based on wishful thinking.