Month: July 2019
Rumour-mongering? The pitfalls of journalism as prophecy
Nobody expects journalists to predict the future or to read the minds of politicians and other newsmakers. Scribes are no more gifted with psychic powers…
Stop printing “Why” headlines as gimmicks
Last week started with the hot story of Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich’s arrest on Tuesday over corruption charges. When State House announced his replacement…
Nation’s praise for colonialism unacceptable
Was colonialism good for Kenya or bad? This is an illiterate question in 2019. But there are still people who believe colonialism was not all…
This is no way to write a profile
Within no time of Ukur Yatani’s appointment as acting Treasury CS on July 24, the Star published on its website a profile of the man….
MEDIASCAPE: How to use witchcraft to create good stories
Do you remember the weather forecasters of yesteryears – those fellows who were said to look out their windows and predict it was going to…
MEDIA MONITORING: Newspaper coverage of Arror and Kimwarer arrests
Corruption is a problem that all countries need to confront and how the media report it should be of interest to all. The impact of…
PEN COP: Police “lobby teargass” at K24 scribes
On Monday, Uhuru lost one of his most trusted Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Principal Secretary Kamau Thugge to the graft war (Star, July 24,…
Okari’s poisoned meat story was alarmist
Dennis Okari of NTV got Kenya talking last week. His Red Alert investigative report aired on NTV on Sunday, July 14, left a lot of…
Esther Arunga, beauty queens and distortion of truth
Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka was burnt on the head, stomach and other parts of the body by his mother on Sunday, July 14. Well, not Kalonzo…
Ah, a well written story and other observations
“This is how HIV cure might look,” said the headline of a story posted July 21 by the Star. That headline drew you right in….