Wednesday, 13 July 2016

FROM SIMPLE ERRORS TO COMPLEX EDITORIAL INADEQUACIES

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Explosive. The meaning implies a potential to blow up, but it's not so big a word. Yet a newspaper sub-editor, with his or her back-up c...
Wednesday, 6 July 2016

OF MEDIA REPORTING ABOUT MISFORTUNES OF FELLOW MEDIA OUTLETS

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For a long time, there had been an unwritten rule within Kenya's mainstream media, about not reporting the not so rosy internal affairs ...
Tuesday, 28 June 2016

MINING MINORS AND MINORING IN THE MAJOR

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The increase in the number of long-form news features in Kenyan broadcasting stations is great. The in-depth look at issues afflicting the s...
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Friday, 24 June 2016

NEWSROOMS DECIDE: NO MORE RECYCLING OF RETIRED WORDS

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Kenyan newsrooms have a knack of recycling already tired phrases. It's almost as if there's already a default set of words for speci...
Friday, 17 June 2016

WHEN SECOND IS THE LEAD, LOCAL CONTENT, AND A TV RATINGS RAT RACE

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That the Kenyan broadcasting industry is competitive is not disputable. So, every opportunity to brag how your channel is doing better than ...
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Thursday, 9 June 2016

LESS THAN SH2 BUDGET FOR SPORTS, OXYMORONS AND MEDIA MORONS

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Editorial mistakes, however tiny or innocent are an eye sore. The annoyance-laden grammatical errors are often sugar-coated as typos, as if ...
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Thursday, 2 June 2016

PROMINENCE, DIVISIVE POLITICS AND A DIVIDED PRESS

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Divisive politics is generally frowned upon by the Kenyan media. It does,  however, appear like the press has divided political loyalty. And...
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