Sri Lanka, March 21 -- The concern from Deputy Minister of Mass Media, Kaushalya Ariyarathne, over Daily Mirror's "big fonts" and front-page headlines, while the country tremors at the brink of a power crisis, is a glaring example of irresponsibility and vanity. The ignorance is bright, albeit not enough to keep an entire country away from probable blackouts.

On the 18th, the Daily Mirror reported on the likelihood of power cuts. On the 19th, MP Ariyarathne criticised the paper for using what she called "COCONUT SIZED" typography reporting the issue. The problem is not the newspaper-it is the government and MPs like her, who are obsessed with shifting blame rather than addressing reality. The world is at war, fuel queues grow longer by t...