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Tuesday, 11 March 2014

HIGH NOON ON TWITTER: IS KENYAN TV NEWS ON THE RIGHT TRACK?

What informed the transformation of  TV news in Kenya? Some say the shift is detrimental to sensible news delivery. Others argue the changes have energized, hitherto, stiff presentation styles and widened the appeal. That's the position being vigorously defended by one of Kenya's finest broadcasting managers.


It had been laboriously pointed out here, that local TV stations needed to urgently desists from adulterating news bulletins with nebulous content, which essentially confined the day's main news to the periphery.

Then the stars conspired and conjured an unusually illuminating confrontation on social media.

One tweet led to another, and before one could say, 'Tweef', a fully-fledged battle of wits and media mastery had ensued. And it's all captured below.






1 comment:

bankelele said...

The Friday and Sunday night news shows that take almost 2 hours, should have clear start/end points for when news transitions into another show.