_media maverick
crucial issues in kenyan journalism
April
30, 2006
Tuju
illness story misled readers
If your own mother tells you she loves you, check
it out. That is, if you want to publish it. That is
the rule in journalism. The Tuju illness story, published
in a section of the Press last Sunday, appears to
have broken this rule.
April
23, 2006
Let
us support Mutua’s bid to enhance transparency
Dr Alfred Mutua’s job as Government Spokesman can
be rather unpleasant business. Part of his job is to defend
people who lie for a living. But this week was different.
The man could be on the way to something.
April
16, 2006
Stories
that should not go without pictures
Words are never enough to tell the kind of story Kenya faced this
week — the tragedy of 14 people, among them prominent politicians,
dead in a plane crash. Without pictures, that kind of story is
nowhere near complete.
April 9, 2006
Time
to take media training seriously
Nairobi is set to host a major media conference the first
week of next month. Tom Friedman, a New York Times columnist,
a triple Pulitzer Prize winner and arguably America’s
most sought after journalist, is coming to talk. But it wont
be just talk.
April 2, 2006
Media
watering the seed of political accountability
John Githongo was right on Wednesday. The former Ethics
and Governance permanent secretary told a forum in Washington
that a culture of political accountability is taking shape
in Kenya. And as much as you might want to argue this
till the cows come home, much credit must go to the media.
March 26,
2006
March
12, 2006
The
devil is in the song
Just a song brought down the Kanu Government.
Now another song looks set to bring down the Narc
Government. What’s in a song?
March
5, 2006
‘Standard’
raid was bad international show
Kenya is all over the international Press
now for all the wrong reasons: Because the
Government broke a series of laws in a midnight
raid on The Standard Group premises.
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