Month: April 2021
Ngilu wrong on media reporting of gender-based violence
Jane Muthoni was found guilty of murder by the High Court in Nakuru on Thursday, April 22. The headlines screamed. All the dailies carried the…
DCI Kinoti salutes Purity Mwambia and Citizen TV investigative gang
Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti once told a reporter that whenever he gets angry the Meru spirits descend upon him and take over. He…
News or opinion? State it or readers will be confused
Newspaper writing is either news or opinion. It can’t be both. The Nation recently failed this test in at least two important stories. In the…
Mind your language: Journalism of hard tackles can incite tensions
The media loves a fight. If some politicians have been accused – rightly – of keeping the country permanently on election mode, no doubt the…
Did ‘Nation’ manufacture quotes? Only PLO could talk like that
Compound sentences. Perfect syntax. Perfect diction. Lofty vocabulary. These are not things you find in quotes by your regular people on the street. Yet, a…
Everyone has right to opinion but it must be based on facts
Alphonce Shiundu Media platforms expose the public to a wide range of opinions. Those opinions should be based on a factual reality and context. It…
DP Ruto has never featured on cover of ‘The Economist’
By Lucy Mwangi and Jacob Nyongesa A tweeted image claiming to show Deputy President William Ruto on the front cover of the June 11–17, 2011,…
The news is Cardinal Njue said the pope is Catholic
Basic Education PS Julius Jwan on Friday said marking [of KCSE] would be done by teachers contracted by the Kenya National Examination Council (Star, April…
State must respect free expression, not be scared of memes
“A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive…
Ethical accountability: Star and PD, who stole the other’s story?
Has cheating found its way into newsrooms? No one would be surprised. It is an undeclared pandemic in the Kenyan education system. That is the…