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Mar-Apr,
2005: Click
on Apr 24, 2005
For the third week in a row,
the world went Catholic, as the media covered little else
but the Vatican. What is going on? Why does the media
assume we are all interested in religion? Is nothing else
going on in the world? Why does the media risk hurting
people’s sensitivities by forcing religion down
everybody’s throat? Or is it not? Apr 17, 2005
Everyone
who bought The Sunday Standard last week for its headline,
"Cracks emerge in LDP", should get their money
back. That story pulled off a daylight robbery, in a manner
of speaking. It read like speculation, speculation and
speculation. Here is the evidence... Apr 10, 2005
Pope
John Paul II practically died on television last week.
The death triggered phenomenal world media coverage from
Rome. But ours fell short; terribly short. Apr 3, 2005
Just
who, between The Standard and the Daily Nation, misled
the country on Wednesday? The country’s two leading
newspapers ran on their front pages the story of Vice
President Moody Awori’s ‘Narc strategy meeting’
at Nairobi’s Milimani Hotel. With a staggering differences
in numbers, it read like two stories of two different
meetings. Mar 27, 2005 Our
media poses two threats on religious matters: pedestrian
opinion and fallacious logic. Let the experts speak. As
for the rest of us, by all means let’s also talk.
Debate must never die. But it would be really nice to
begin by saying that we are not the experts. Mar 20, 2005 
Politics
is not a dirty game, after allThe return of Parliament this week swings the spotlight back on politics, as it plays out in the press. The face of politics in our media is not pretty. It is the picture of perpetual bickering, endless shenanigans, talk, talk and more talk. But it is all a distorted view of the real thing. 
Mar 13, 2005
Media
put premium on controversyThe verdict has been unanimous this week: Gor Sunguh made an ass of himself on national television. But bon’t news channels cheapen their news broadcasts by pandering only to controversy and sensationalism? As twisted as this may sound, the fact is that in the news business, controversy is a value. And there’s a reason for this.
Mar 6, 2005
The
laws needed for those with camerasNonsense. This is the only fitting adjective for a recent Ministry of Information advert in the Daily Nation, which practically said that it is illegal to take pictures in Kenya without a licence.
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