Friday, 28 June 2019

OF HEADLINES, TENSE EDITORS AND MIXING-UP TENSES

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Media coverage can revolve around current issues, past events or even future occurrences. The reader, viewer or listener would not find it h...
Friday, 21 June 2019

FRAUDULENT TV CONTENT AND ON AIR FRAUDSTERS

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Kenyan television can be a fraud. If you tune in, you're not sure whether you are adding to your level of knowledge, or if what you have...
Friday, 14 June 2019

OF STYLEBOOK AND LOGIC-DEFYING EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

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A reputable media house has internal editorial guidelines, to achieving a standardised approach in gathering, processing and publishing or b...
Saturday, 8 June 2019

FROM MEDIA MONOTONY TO MEDIA MORONITY

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The content across Kenyan media outlets can be very monotonous. You tune in to one news channel, and most likely stay there, because if you ...
Thursday, 30 May 2019

BILLIONS, A SCREAMING HEADLINE & WHISPERING SUBSTANCE

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The term 'billion' has been quoted frequently in reference to misappropriated public funds in Kenya. It's a huge figure that eli...
Saturday, 25 May 2019

LYING & MEDIA LAYING DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF SAME TRUTH

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There ought to be a semblance of factual unity in the information a media outlet is pushing out. And if accounts of the 'truth' are ...
Saturday, 18 May 2019

EDITORIAL AGILITY, AMBIGUITY AND CONTRADICTING INFORMATION

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That opposites attract is true for magnetic poles. But in communication, contradicting information is repulsive. The media risks confusing t...
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