{"id":27892,"date":"2014-02-05T20:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T01:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=27892"},"modified":"2014-02-05T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T01:01:19","slug":"30-minute-documentary-titled-sri-lankareconciling-and-rebuildingtargeting-us-viewers-aired-over-nbc-during-prime-time-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=27892","title":{"rendered":"30 Minute Documentary Titled &#8220;Sri Lanka:Reconciling and Rebuilding&#8221;Targeting US Viewers Aired Over NBC During Prime Time on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nBy <\/p>\n<p>Dharisha Bastians<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A strategy and lobby firm contracted by the Sri Lanka Central Bank at a thumping fee has aired a 30 minute documentary to promote the island\u2019s post war potential and progress on a major US television network last weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Thompson Advisory Group (TAG) aired the 28 minute infomercial entitled Sri Lanka: Reconciling and Rebuilding on the NBC network to reach US audiences during a prime television air slot last Sunday (2) morning, Daily FT learns.<\/p>\n<p>The infomercial or paid program was narrated by former CNN anchor and PR consultant, Gene Randall, who has conducted similar campaigns for energy giant Chevron during a major oil contamination scandal in the Amazon rain forest in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>The same documentary was presented before a group of Congressmen and officials specially invited by TAG to meet a Sri Lankan delegation headed by Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunga at the US Capitol last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Thompson Advisory Group (TAG), a Washington-based advocacy and strategy group was hired by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka last year at a whopping cost of $ 66,600 (Rs. 8,337,600) per month.<\/p>\n<p>TAG is one of at least two US based Lobby firms hired by the Sri Lankan Government at a monumental cost of tens of millions of rupees per year, to build the regime\u2019s credibility with Washington politicians and influential policy makers.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary and intensified lobbying precedes a tough session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva next month, where the US Government will float a third resolution on Sri Lanka, pushing for credible inquiries into the final phase of the war and a permanent political solution to the conflict.<\/p>\n<p><em>COURTESY:DailyFT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton27892\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D27892&amp;text=30%20Minute%20Documentary%20Titled%20%26%238220%3BSri%20Lanka%3AReconciling%20and%20Rebuilding%26%238221%3BTargeting%20US%20Viewers%20Aired%20Over...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dharisha Bastians A strategy and lobby firm contracted by the Sri Lanka Central Bank at a thumping fee has aired a 30 minute documentary to promote the island\u2019s post war potential and progress on a major US television network last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27893,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27892\/revisions\/27893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}