Month: January 2021
How much is Sh2 billion? A huge sum. Here at The Observer we have never seen that kind of money. Now we have it on…
Media risks being used as platform to incite election-related violence
The Star carried a timely editorial titled, “Let’s call a truce on political mudslinging” (January 19, p.20). “It is still 19 months to the August…
After Trump America returns to normal, but media won’t like it
“Hello, my name is Joe Biden. I work for Barack Obama.” Nairobi will remember this pithy 2010 introduction to a University of Nairobi audience at…
Keep lynch mobs out of TV talk shows, issues not personalities
Trevor Ombija hosts a bull fighter called Boni Khalwale, promising young opposition politician Edwin Sifuna, good debater and top lawyer Otiende Omollo and nominated Senator…
Wanted: Good journalism about Africa from African newsrooms
A huge uproar broke out at the start of 2021 over a familiar subject, namely, skewed Western media coverage of Africa. Looks like Euro-American mind-sets…
Spice FM’s ‘Situation Room’ offers deep conversations on topical issues
The morning show on Spice FM that runs from 6am to 10am is called “The Situation Room”, hosted by Muga, Eric Lattiff and Ndu Okoh…
Mediascape: Polite reminder: We are journalists, not judges
Thursday, January 21, year of Our Lord 2021. Citizen TV features a confession by a 22-year-old murder suspect in Kiambu, describing how and why she…
PEN COP: Politics is ‘art of the impossible’? Star never heard of handshake
However, pressed whether they can still work with Raila again, Wetang’ula retorted, “In politics, you don’t say never. William Shakespeare said politics is the art…
Happy New Year, all ye journalists! Before the year 2021 gets too old, let us make a few resolutions. And no, we will not make…
‘Cracks in Ruto camp’: What were Kimathi Street editors up to with this story?
The headline on the newsstand grabs your eye. “Cracks in Ruto camp” (Saturday Nation, January 9). Photo of the DP in a cap branded ‘Hustler’….