1. Esfar Zuhayr
The British School in Colombo

2. Is it ethical for news companies to feed false information to
third parties

3. newly received or noteworthy information, especially
about recent events.
- oxforddictionary.com
Information about recent events or happenings,
especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals,
radio or television.
- thefreedictionary.com

4.  Type 1- News presented on
national or International
news channels via
televisions or podcasts
 Type 2- News found in
news papers and
periodicals.
 Type 3- News available on
the internet webpages

5.  It is routinely observed and followed by people of
different ethnic backgrounds worldwide
 The news can shape an individual’s opinion about
certain topics with the intention to achieve mass
support.
 The news can be manipulated to be used as a tool for
mass support.

6.  How do we know that the news provided by the
mainstream media channels are accurate and can be
perceived to be the absolute truth?

9.  The news given by news channel is just information
understood using our sense perception.
 To get accurate and holistic view about the
information provided by news channels we need to
apply other ways of knowing such as reasoning,
language and emotion.

10. Truth: -
a)Two planes had crashed into the two towers
b) It resulted with the death of over 3000 innocent
people.
c) It was evident that Al-Qaeda was linked to the
attacks
d) This tragic event led to the invasion of Afghanistan

11. Possible coverups:-
a) Presence of another bomb in the tower
b) The fall of building 7, 47 stories high
c) Experts claim, the metal structure of the thermite was
used to cut the metal structure of the twin towers,
which led to their collapse

12.  12:35
 55:56
 1:05:
 1:11:15

13. The Israeli police had used Human barriers (Banned
since 2002) to prevent Palestinian protestors from
stoning their vehicles.
Source: BBC

16.  USA blames Iran for supplying the Syrian regime with
weapons and missiles.
 So who is supplying the weapons to the Syrian
resistance army to keep up their fighting against the
government?
 CIA is covertly training and arming new recruits to the
FSA to keep up the fighting against the government
forces, near the Syria-Turkey border

19. Why do the deaths of all the innocent civilians dead in
Afghanistan or any other country due to war go
unheard of ?

20. Category Death Toll
World Trade Centre Nearly 3000
Pentagon 55 military personnel

21. Category Death toll
Militia Forces 6 995
Soldiers (USA) 2 000
Civilians 32 608

22. Category Death toll
Civilians 37 480 – 39 612
Government Force 11 589
Rebels (FSA) 8 960

23.  "Civilian deaths and arbitrary decisions to search people’s houses
have reached an unacceptable level and Afghans cannot put up
with it any longer."
"Five years on, it is very difficult for us to continue accepting
civilian casualties. It is becoming heavy for us; it is not
understandable anymore."
"We are very sorry when the international coalition force and
NATO soldiers lose their lives or are injured. It pains us. But
Afghans are human beings, too."
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai,