Rupavahini, you fucking cowards

You know, I was so proud of the guys at Rupavahini Corporation. True, they bend over like a cheap butt-boy when the new government comes in. So much so that they have two divisions in the News section, the Pinnawela crowd (named after the famous elephant orphanage), and the Nilkamal crowd (named after the chair makers, and because the name has the word nil in it). True that they will tell you the news in completely fair and balanced fashion, fair to the government and balanced towards the government. But at least they took on Mervyn Silva.

Not many of us will forget the many pictures and live telecasts of Mervyn Silva, the biggest thug next to The Beast, getting beaten up by the Rupavahini Corporation employees when he beat up their news director. People were fucking cheering. Its not often that we get to see the thugs in parliament get their comeuppance, and when we do, by Eris we enjoy it. I remember raising a glass to the Rupavahini guys soon after.

No one was surprised either when the CIB started investigating the employees for attacking the Honourable Minister for Labour instead of the actions that led up to it. We were shocked and stunned to hear that Mervyn the Mad had been offered a position in the Constitutional Council in exchange for resigning his Ministerial post. Shocked, stunned, dismayed, but not necessarily surprised. After all, The Beast looks after his own. We weren't very surprised to find that the News Director was sacked, that the reporters were being attacked.

Then comes this. The Rupavahini Corporation employees have gone on strike. No more live programming. they say, until they receive an assurance from The Beast that the attacks on journalists will stop.

No mention of Mervyn the Mad, no mention of the CIB investigation, no mention of the News Director who was beaten up by both Mad Merv and his bodyguards. No mention, even, of the one hour protest they had outside the Rupavahini office. None. Just please stop hitting us and we'll let you fuck us in the ass all you want.

For a moment there, Rupavahini was a hero. A shining example for what happens to power mad politicians who decide that they can do whateverthefuck they want. All this ends today. Rupavahini is now officially a warning. The Beast has sent his message, as he has done many times before. Bow to me and there will be perks. Let me beat you up, assrape you, fuck your daughter, and I'll give you a job for life. But say one word of complaint, refuse, or, worse, stand up to me, and there will be thugs in they night. White vans to pick you up. iron bars to put you in hospital.

Rupavahini, I feel sorry for you. You stood up to them, and you got beaten down for it. They haven't come to the blogosphere yet, but I am sure that there will be many of us caving if they did. But the warning is there. We can expect Rupavahini to toe the line from now on. Mad Merv won't even have to come to the office anymore. He can threaten them with a phone call, and it will be Athiwishishtaiy SIR!! And we can expect the same thing. if this is what happens to the media what chance do us normal fools have?

Rupavahini, you fucking cowards. You let the media down, you let the country down. We never expected anything less from you. But seeing you fall like this after you were such a shining example, that hurts. That hurts bad.