Biased Media and LTTE Killings

LTTE bus bomb victims [image from defence.lk]

This year is going to be the year of BLOOD. Even a 3rd grade school boy can predict this fact. It started with killing of T. Maheshwaran (Tamil MP of Opposition), it created huge debate among media and politicians. I watched the TV station "S" reporting the whole incident, step by step, wife crying, kids confused and disturbed. It was really sad to see people trying to over come the fact that they have lost some one they loved, brought tears o my eyes. The coverage was exclusive (bit too much I guess), more than half of the allocated time was spent on reporting this story. The news channel was clearly trying point the finger at the government for his death. Then came the assassination of D.M dassanayake(MP of the government), I switched on the TV to watch "S" news expecting an exclusive coverage, this time it was different, bit boring, the news was not designed to create sadness like in T Maheshwaran incident. And it didn’t mention any thing about the suspects, which was clearly a work of LTTE. I could clearly see a difference in reporting the incidents, may be it was just the way I felt. In my opinion both of them were humans, and should not be killed brutally like that. Both of them deserve the same media attention, why make a difference. Then LTTE ambushed and bombed a bus carrying innocent civilians, 27 killed, twice of that injured. I watched news in all channels. The channel in question was not reporting it as it did for the first case, it was clear as day. I didn’t see people crying, wailing, and asking their loved ones to come back. That’s good in one way, I was really sad when I was watching the first incident, almost choked my food. Is it fair to be biased like this, is this the media freedom? I observed similar reactions in some of the blogs, for an example Anandawardana author of a sinhala blog called webalochana was quick in writing a post about killing T . Maheshwaran[I repeat , killing him is totally wrong]. But he never wrote anything about the bus BOMB or the incidents after that(May be he's still writing). I even posted a comment asking him to do that, he couldn’t even post that comment. What’s wrong with these people, can’t they remove their colored glasses and look at the reality.