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Thursday, 4 May 2017

OF FORGED LAND AND NEWS FORGERIES

The media plays an important role of enlightening the public. Yet, when partaking from Kenyan news outlets, one at times is left feeling dumber. Confused wondering if one could be the only one not understanding the content. Or worse still, convinced that the media cannot be mistaken and whole-heartedly believing even news forgeries.


What does the word forgery actually mean?

According to the online Cambridge dictionary, forgery:
...is an illegal copy of a document, painting, etc. or the crime of making such illegal copies.
So, going by this definition, the heading of the newspaper article above wants the reader to perhaps visualize an original piece of land, and then stretch the imagination a little more and see the accused person making an illegal copy of the same land.

Forged land?

Ridiculous, right?

One is left wondering what wrong one has done to deserve such an editorially-induced mental anguish.






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1 comment:

bankelele said...

Another recent shocking story was in the petition against Swazi at parliament. At one of the committee hearings, the petitioner who said he was wrongly denied compensation, was told that his documents were also fake.

9 May 2017 at 21:10

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