Tuesday, 23 September 2014

HOW TO RE-INVENT INVENTIONS IN TV NEWS

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Media outlets in Kenya like publishing or broadcasting 'wonderful' news. A feel good story helps to reduce the impact from heavy bom...
Tuesday, 16 September 2014

MAU MEDIA AGENDA AND A TRAGIC TRIBAL TRAJECTORY

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Long format TV features are gaining popularity in Kenyan broadcast stations. They accord adequate time for reporters to thoroughly interroga...
Tuesday, 9 September 2014

ABSENTEE JOURNALISM AND A LEGISLATOR'S ABSENCE

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Journalists are known to go to great lengths to get details of a news story. This means, travelling to the other side of the world, or riski...
Thursday, 4 September 2014

OF DISPLACED REFUGEES AND A CONTRADICTORY NONSENSE

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The English language can play a nasty game on a newspaper editor. One can stitch words together, which on the surface seem to yield a sensib...
Wednesday, 27 August 2014

PSST...NEWS REPORTERS...GIVE YOUR PTC SOME TLC

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News on Kenyan television, has of late become 'inspiringly' standardised. The various channels seem to have all reached a plateau ph...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014

ENOUGH OF THE WELCOME BACK AND ON AIR GOODBYES!

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It's pretentious and a stage-managed ploy to hoodwink the audience. One can even describe it as media personalities playing to the galle...
Wednesday, 13 August 2014

TWO COINS OF THE SAME SIDE

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If one is to distinguish between journalism and blogging, will it be more clearer if one uses the point of view of a journalist, or the pers...