Month: November 2018
Media, inequality and fetishized exams
It is January 2019. Schools have just opened. You are seated alone in your office as the head teacher of a rural primary school in…
Get it: Kenya has no Opposition
“Mboko on Tuesday said the handshake between Raila and President Uhuru Kenyatta does not stop the Opposition chief from running in 2022,” the Star reported…
Aagh! What a terrible picture
A good picture should tell the viewer something – even without additional information, called a caption. A news picture should be tossed into the dustbin…
Moi on boda boda: How to kill a good story
Baringo senator Gideon Moi, the man who could be Kenya’s fifth president, last Saturday landed on a helicopter deep inside Murang’a County – then hopped…
Contradictory facts: Suspension of Nakuru County minister
If media maintains the virtues of correctness and research in their reporting, certainly the society will be well informed. Ethical reporting is the bloodstream of…
Mediascape: Absurd battle of the sexes
Last week’s reportage can be summarised in three words: Battle of sexes. Besides pretending that we are Martians who had no idea how hundreds of…
PENCOP: The journalism of ‘defying all odds’
KCPE results were released on Monday, November 19, 2018 by Education CS Amina Mohamed. The media took up the que dissecting various aspects of the…
VIP deaths and media ethics
It is four years since renowned world evangelist Myles Munroe died in a plane crash. He was mourned far and wide. In Kenya, Monroe’s interview…
How to spin, by People Daily
Ahem, let’s get a little matter out of the way before we talk, sorry write, about the People Daily’s reporting of last week’s biggest story….
Kudos Okari, but why bother ‘Dr’ Mugo’s parents?
Police on Tuesday, November 13, finally arrested quack doctor James Mugo aka Mugo wa Wairimu in Kiambu after more than a week of hunting for…