PRINT MEDIA ANALYSIS FACT SHEET - June 2019 Introduction Total Newspapers Since 2005, ADIC conducts daily surveillance on print media and produce a Monday to Sunday monthly analysis of references regarding alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, heroin and other Saturday drugs (ATOD) occurring in selected print media in the three mediums – Sinhala, Tamil and English. This analysis which is called “The Print Media Analysis” leads to Sinhala monitoring and identifying the prevailing/ current trends and patterns related to 05 06 alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, heroin and other drug reporting. It also identies the current attitudes and the behavior of the media and media personalities with regard to ATOD. This fact sheet contains the analysis of Sinhala and English newspapers in English June 2019. 05 05 Newspaper Articles - Classication according to Prevention – Improve correct knowledge on ATOD, its industries and eective prevention. Promotion, Prevention & Policy Promotion - Glamorizing the substance, industry image building, surrogate advertising, social beliefes, unfair privileges and promotion through prevention. Monday to Saturday Sinhala English Positive policy – Supporting implementation and formulation, of ATOD control policies. Prevention 35 Negative policy – Undermining formulation & 20 implementation of ATOD control policies. Promotion 6 Law enforcement- Legal actions taken by the authorities 9 when ATOD related laws & regulations are violated. Negative 2 Non Category –Specically this does not include policy, Policy 0 prevention or promotion of any drug but it provides information on ATOD through words or pictures. Positive 11 Policy 2 Law 268 Enforcement 58 Articles on Law Enforcement Non 1 Categorized 64 0 Alcohol 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 n 7 n = Number of articles 25 Tobacco Sinhala 5 English Sunday Sinhala 36 Cannabis English 10 Prevention 6 78 9 Heroin 16 13 Promotion 4 77 Other Drugs 22 Negative 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Policy 0 This graph depicts articles published under the Positive 2 law enforcement category according to drug Policy 0 type. The highest reported drug type is heroin at Law 12 78 articles in Sinhala newspapers and 16 in Enforcement 2 English news papers. Non 0 Categorized 0 0 3 6 9 12 15 n Classification according to Newspapers. Monday to Saturday English Papers Monday to Saturday newspaper 20 graph shows “Daily Mirror ” 18 newspaper has the highest 16 promotion. “Daily Mirror” 15 newspaper was the primary 12 12 publisher of law enforcement n 10 articles. 6 15 5 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Prevention Daily Mirror The Island Daily News Daily FT Ceylon Today Promotion Sunday English Papers Policy 3 Law enforcement 3.0 n = Number of articles 2.5 2 2 2.0 n 1.5 1 1 1 1 1 1.0 This graph shows , “Sunday Times” 0.5 Sunday neswpaper has highly 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 contributed in prevention. 0.0 Sunday Sunday Sunday Weekend Sunday Observer Island Times FT Ceylon Today Monday to Saturday Sinhala Papers 100 It demonstrates that the 90 “Mawubima and Lankadeepa” Newspaper have contributed 80 71 highly in promotions. “Ada” newspapers was the primary 60 publisher of prevention. n 45 40 35 27 20 9 8 8 6 5 5 Prevention 1 8 1 2 1 0 2 2 1 0 Divaina Dinamina Lankadeepa Ada Mawubima Promotion Policy Sunday Sinhala Papers Law enforcement 6 n = Number of articles 6 5 5 4 n 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 “Silumina” newspaper had the highest contribution to 1 1 1 promotions. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Divaina Lankadeepa Lakbima Silumina Mawbima Lanka.