Saturday, 26 May 2018

PICTURES, CAPTIONS AND THE NEWS COVENANT

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For any piece of news to make sense, certain details need to be included. The reader needs to be provided with critical information to not o...
Wednesday, 16 May 2018

WORDS, MEANING, MEDIA CONTEXT AND WRONG FACTS

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Words convey meanings encoded in them. But deciphering the meaning of words in many languages is not a simple affair. Other factors like str...
Friday, 11 May 2018

FACTS, JOURNALISTS AND NURSERY RHYMES

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Journalists can get facts wrong based on faulty interpretation of information. Some facts though require no additional processing. The'v...
Wednesday, 2 May 2018

INTELLECT, INSTINCTS AND INSENSITIVE FOOTBALL ANALYSTS

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It's the most prestigious club football competition in Europe, and probably the most popular in the world. An ugly blot from one footbal...
Wednesday, 25 April 2018

ADVERTORIAL CONTENT AND LANGUAGE EXPERIMENTS

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Language is supposed to be dynamic. The aim is to ensure every possible aspect of humanity can be coded in a form that can be meaningfully e...
Thursday, 19 April 2018

LAZY JOURNALISM, ENTERPRISE REPORTING AND AN EMPTY DAM

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It's the middle of the wettest season in Kenya. Then comes a very curious coverage highlighting the strange fact that the dam that suppl...
Thursday, 12 April 2018

FROGS, FACTS, FALLACIES AND FAKE NEWS

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Reliable and credible news ought to be anchored on solid facts. And the press simply should not convey information. Value addition through i...