Rajapakse’s dream to be ‘Time’ Hero turns into despair :Egypt’s rebellion takes top position
SOURCE
http://www.lankaenews.com/English/news.php?id=11038
(Lanka-e-News -23.April.2011, 2.45PM) SL President Mahinda Rajapakse who was elected President for the second successive term allegedly on a computer fraud , as accused by the Opposition , and who was among the top few in a survey to elect the most influential person in the world conducted by the popular world ‘Time’ magazine, had in the end , tumbled down in the list.
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
The Managing Editor of the Time magazine Richard Stenjel had emphasized Influence is impossible to measure. It's a little like what social scientists call the butterfly effect: the idea that a tiny change in one part of a system can yield gargantuan changes later on. But often this is a romantic illusion; large-scale changes occur only when great numbers of people become restive over time, just as people in the Middle East have been moved to shake off decades of authoritarian rule.
In the circumstances , the Time magazine has chosen for 2011, Egypt’s Dictator Hosni Mubarak who triggered the prevailing unrest in the whole of middle East, and Wael Ghonim the Egyptian youth who led the rebellion to topple his Govt. as being at the top of the hundred most influential persons in the world.
(Lanka-e-News -23.April.2011, 2.45PM) SL President Mahinda Rajapakse who was elected President for the second successive term allegedly on a computer fraud , as accused by the Opposition , and who was among the top few in a survey to elect the most influential person in the world conducted by the popular world ‘Time’ magazine, had in the end , tumbled down in the list.
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
The Managing Editor of the Time magazine Richard Stenjel had emphasized Influence is impossible to measure. It's a little like what social scientists call the butterfly effect: the idea that a tiny change in one part of a system can yield gargantuan changes later on. But often this is a romantic illusion; large-scale changes occur only when great numbers of people become restive over time, just as people in the Middle East have been moved to shake off decades of authoritarian rule.
In the circumstances , the Time magazine has chosen for 2011, Egypt’s Dictator Hosni Mubarak who triggered the prevailing unrest in the whole of middle East, and Wael Ghonim the Egyptian youth who led the rebellion to topple his Govt. as being at the top of the hundred most influential persons in the world.
(Lanka-e-News -23.April.2011, 2.45PM) SL President Mahinda Rajapakse who was elected President for the second successive term allegedly on a computer fraud , as accused by the Opposition , and who was among the top few in a survey to elect the most influential person in the world conducted by the popular world ‘Time’ magazine, had in the end , tumbled down in the list.
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
The Managing Editor of the Time magazine Richard Stenjel had emphasized Influence is impossible to measure. It's a little like what social scientists call the butterfly effect: the idea that a tiny change in one part of a system can yield gargantuan changes later on. But often this is a romantic illusion; large-scale changes occur only when great numbers of people become restive over time, just as people in the Middle East have been moved to shake off decades of authoritarian rule.
In the circumstances , the Time magazine has chosen for 2011, Egypt’s Dictator Hosni Mubarak who triggered the prevailing unrest in the whole of middle East, and Wael Ghonim the Egyptian youth who led the rebellion to topple his Govt. as being at the top of the hundred most influential persons in the world.
(Lanka-e-News -23.April.2011, 2.45PM) SL President Mahinda Rajapakse who was elected President for the second successive term allegedly on a computer fraud , as accused by the Opposition , and who was among the top few in a survey to elect the most influential person in the world conducted by the popular world ‘Time’ magazine, had in the end , tumbled down in the list.
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
The Managing Editor of the Time magazine Richard Stenjel had emphasized Influence is impossible to measure. It's a little like what social scientists call the butterfly effect: the idea that a tiny change in one part of a system can yield gargantuan changes later on. But often this is a romantic illusion; large-scale changes occur only when great numbers of people become restive over time, just as people in the Middle East have been moved to shake off decades of authoritarian rule.
In the circumstances , the Time magazine has chosen for 2011, Egypt’s Dictator Hosni Mubarak who triggered the prevailing unrest in the whole of middle East, and Wael Ghonim the Egyptian youth who led the rebellion to topple his Govt. as being at the top of the hundred most influential persons in the world. (Lanka-e-News -23.April.2011, 2.45PM) SL President Mahinda Rajapakse who was elected President for the second successive term allegedly on a computer fraud , as accused by the Opposition , and who was among the top few in a survey to elect the most influential person in the world conducted by the popular world ‘Time’ magazine, had in the end , tumbled down in the list.
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
The Managing Editor of the Time magazine Richard Stenjel had emphasized Influence is impossible to measure. It's a little like what social scientists call the butterfly effect: the idea that a tiny change in one part of a system can yield gargantuan changes later on. But often this is a romantic illusion; large-scale changes occur only when great numbers of people become restive over time, just as people in the Middle East have been moved to shake off decades of authoritarian rule.
In the circumstances , the Time magazine has chosen for 2011, Egypt’s Dictator Hosni Mubarak who triggered the prevailing unrest in the whole of middle East, and Wael Ghonim the Egyptian youth who led the rebellion to topple his Govt. as being at the top of the hundred most influential persons in the world. (Lanka-e-News -23.April.2011, 2.45PM) SL President Mahinda Rajapakse who was elected President for the second successive term allegedly on a computer fraud , as accused by the Opposition , and who was among the top few in a survey to elect the most influential person in the world conducted by the popular world ‘Time’ magazine, had in the end , tumbled down in the list.
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
SOURCE
http://www.lankaenews.com/English/news.php?id=11038
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
The Managing Editor of the Time magazine Richard Stenjel had emphasized Influence is impossible to measure. It's a little like what social scientists call the butterfly effect: the idea that a tiny change in one part of a system can yield gargantuan changes later on. But often this is a romantic illusion; large-scale changes occur only when great numbers of people become restive over time, just as people in the Middle East have been moved to shake off decades of authoritarian rule.
In the circumstances , the Time magazine has chosen for 2011, Egypt’s Dictator Hosni Mubarak who triggered the prevailing unrest in the whole of middle East, and Wael Ghonim the Egyptian youth who led the rebellion to topple his Govt. as being at the top of the hundred most influential persons in the world.
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
The Managing Editor of the Time magazine Richard Stenjel had emphasized Influence is impossible to measure. It's a little like what social scientists call the butterfly effect: the idea that a tiny change in one part of a system can yield gargantuan changes later on. But often this is a romantic illusion; large-scale changes occur only when great numbers of people become restive over time, just as people in the Middle East have been moved to shake off decades of authoritarian rule.
In the circumstances , the Time magazine has chosen for 2011, Egypt’s Dictator Hosni Mubarak who triggered the prevailing unrest in the whole of middle East, and Wael Ghonim the Egyptian youth who led the rebellion to topple his Govt. as being at the top of the hundred most influential persons in the world.
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
The Managing Editor of the Time magazine Richard Stenjel had emphasized Influence is impossible to measure. It's a little like what social scientists call the butterfly effect: the idea that a tiny change in one part of a system can yield gargantuan changes later on. But often this is a romantic illusion; large-scale changes occur only when great numbers of people become restive over time, just as people in the Middle East have been moved to shake off decades of authoritarian rule.
In the circumstances , the Time magazine has chosen for 2011, Egypt’s Dictator Hosni Mubarak who triggered the prevailing unrest in the whole of middle East, and Wael Ghonim the Egyptian youth who led the rebellion to topple his Govt. as being at the top of the hundred most influential persons in the world.
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
The Managing Editor of the Time magazine Richard Stenjel had emphasized Influence is impossible to measure. It's a little like what social scientists call the butterfly effect: the idea that a tiny change in one part of a system can yield gargantuan changes later on. But often this is a romantic illusion; large-scale changes occur only when great numbers of people become restive over time, just as people in the Middle East have been moved to shake off decades of authoritarian rule.
In the circumstances , the Time magazine has chosen for 2011, Egypt’s Dictator Hosni Mubarak who triggered the prevailing unrest in the whole of middle East, and Wael Ghonim the Egyptian youth who led the rebellion to topple his Govt. as being at the top of the hundred most influential persons in the world. (Lanka-e-News -23.April.2011, 2.45PM) SL President Mahinda Rajapakse who was elected President for the second successive term allegedly on a computer fraud , as accused by the Opposition , and who was among the top few in a survey to elect the most influential person in the world conducted by the popular world ‘Time’ magazine, had in the end , tumbled down in the list.
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
The Managing Editor of the Time magazine Richard Stenjel had emphasized Influence is impossible to measure. It's a little like what social scientists call the butterfly effect: the idea that a tiny change in one part of a system can yield gargantuan changes later on. But often this is a romantic illusion; large-scale changes occur only when great numbers of people become restive over time, just as people in the Middle East have been moved to shake off decades of authoritarian rule.
In the circumstances , the Time magazine has chosen for 2011, Egypt’s Dictator Hosni Mubarak who triggered the prevailing unrest in the whole of middle East, and Wael Ghonim the Egyptian youth who led the rebellion to topple his Govt. as being at the top of the hundred most influential persons in the world. (Lanka-e-News -23.April.2011, 2.45PM) SL President Mahinda Rajapakse who was elected President for the second successive term allegedly on a computer fraud , as accused by the Opposition , and who was among the top few in a survey to elect the most influential person in the world conducted by the popular world ‘Time’ magazine, had in the end , tumbled down in the list.
The result of the recent survey conducted by the Time magazine to select the first hundred world’s most influential persons in the world was released on the 22nd . The Time when deciding on this took into consideration not only the fans’ support . When deciding on this the SL President was among the top positions. But later ,the Time Board of Editors had decided to remove several others on top including Rajapakse. Consequently , President Rajapakse had been unfortunate - he had tumbled down from the top hundred .
The State media and Govt. supporters had strived hard to propel Rajapakse to the top in this list during the election . In this direction the Govt. started an exclusive campaign too. According to media reports , in the camps of the Forces, in foreign SL missions and Govt. Depts., computers were specially set aside to announce the results of this election. In addition, a separate Institution was entrusted with a contract to carry out publicity in this regard.
Following the commencement of this publicity campaign by the Govt. , the supporters of the LTTE launched a counter campaign against Mahinda Rajapakse as among the most influential persons in the world .
As a result of this, votes for both sides began to build up at lightning speed. With this snowballing of votes for Mahinda Rajapakse , the State media and intellectuals became ecstatic and started announcing that Rajapakse is ahead as the most influential person in the world.
In the end , when the Editor’s Board of ‘Time’ made a final decision , Mahinda Rajapakse was not in the first hundred world’s most influential persons. In the selection , the Board had taken into account several logically deciding factors. They have declared that attention was most focused on the recent political upheavals in the middle East and the Asian regions , and the opposition mounted against the political and economic trends there. They also noted that the revolutions world over and the website face book responses of society had also an impact.
