Month: April 2018
Press Freedom Day: Media must resist misrule
A Nairobi-based radio reporter recently told The Observer about his frightening experience during electioneering last year. His regular reports about top politicians were deemed to…
Kamaliza, witchcraft and gullible journalists
Tokosha Kamaliza is a name that is, perhaps and ironically, better known in Nairobi than in Busia County where she lives and ‘practices’. Sounds familiar?…
From funerals to talkshops, we are fake
If conferences and funerals are your thing, then you had a treat last week. We like talking. Even without making sense. Actually, we like lying….
Avicii, Kenyan media loved you!
People like saying that we live in a global village. No. That is a lie. Only some people live in that “village”. The rest of…
Fake news: Teachers to cook and DG’s nude video
Misleading information posted was on Raila Think Tank page purporting that the government was set to do away with cooks in all public schools. The…
Matiba, media and history
In the week that three electoral commissioners resigned “with immediately effect”, as one of them put it, the nation was engaged in something far less…
Judiciary fights fake news
The Judiciary is grappling with several cases of fake news spread online targeting its image. A number of cases involve press statements purported to have…
Calling war correspondents
Why is there no longer any news about Kenya’s war against Al Shabaab in Somalia? Or did the war end without a formal declaration? Last…
Handshake journalism is here?
By all accounts, President Kenyatta’s visit to the Land of the Queen to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting last week was a roaring…
PEN COP: We catch messy journalism
‘Three dead in Baringo bootleg alcohol tragedy, 20 hospitalized’ (The Star, Wednesday, April 18, 2018, p.33) “Bartolino assistant chief Nicolas Bowen confirmed the deaths of…