Re: [kictanet] Media Reports
The media need to report both the good and the ugly news. Our wish that they focus more on positive stories than negative ones may not help the country in the long run. I think the anger voiced on the list at the current media stories about Mungiki's menace in Central Province is misdirected. Real people are dieing in those villages and we cannot wish that those deaths were not reported. Rather let's pressurize the Minister and PS in charge of internal security, the Administration Police, Police, Paramilitary (GSU), CID, Special Branch, etc to contain this menace. These government officials should be made to account for these deaths –I think we need direct our anger and questions at these people not the media. Bakuli
As one of the people who brought up the Mungiki issue, I'd like to clarify that my concern is having it overplayed - not that we should blackout such news. The issues should be reported but not in the way they are being portrayed at the expense of everything else - and even empowering Mungiki's objective to terrorise. There must be other ways to lobby Ministers/Govt without dehumanising everyone else. Wainaina On 6/15/09, Luvisia Bakuli <luvisia.bakuli@gmail.com> wrote:
The media need to report both the good and the ugly news. Our wish that they focus more on positive stories than negative ones may not help the country in the long run. I think the anger voiced on the list at the current media stories about Mungiki's menace in Central Province is misdirected.
Real people are dieing in those villages and we cannot wish that those deaths were not reported. Rather let's pressurize the Minister and PS in charge of internal security, the Administration Police, Police, Paramilitary (GSU), CID, Special Branch, etc to contain this menace. These government officials should be made to account for these deaths –I think we need direct our anger and questions at these people not the media. Bakuli
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Members of the group,let first of all appreciatiate the effectiveness of the discussions.On media reports let those who do the rerting adhere to this principle:tell the truth,tell the facts but minimize harm karsan from tanzania
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:42:57 +0300 From: wainaina@madeinkenya.org Subject: Re: [kictanet] Media Reports CC: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke To: msabila@hotmail.com
As one of the people who brought up the Mungiki issue, I'd like to clarify that my concern is having it overplayed - not that we should blackout such news.
The issues should be reported but not in the way they are being portrayed at the expense of everything else - and even empowering Mungiki's objective to terrorise.
There must be other ways to lobby Ministers/Govt without dehumanising everyone else.
Wainaina
On 6/15/09, Luvisia Bakuli <luvisia.bakuli@gmail.com> wrote:
The media need to report both the good and the ugly news. Our wish that they focus more on positive stories than negative ones may not help the country in the long run. I think the anger voiced on the list at the current media stories about Mungiki's menace in Central Province is misdirected.
Real people are dieing in those villages and we cannot wish that those deaths were not reported. Rather let's pressurize the Minister and PS in charge of internal security, the Administration Police, Police, Paramilitary (GSU), CID, Special Branch, etc to contain this menace. These government officials should be made to account for these deaths –I think we need direct our anger and questions at these people not the media. Bakuli
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Dear all,the media practitioners must adhere to this principle:tell the truth,tell the facts but minimize harm.Anything violating this will be tantamount to inlamming chaos and mayham Karsan from tanzania
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:42:57 +0300 From: wainaina@madeinkenya.org Subject: Re: [kictanet] Media Reports CC: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke To: msabila@hotmail.com
As one of the people who brought up the Mungiki issue, I'd like to clarify that my concern is having it overplayed - not that we should blackout such news.
The issues should be reported but not in the way they are being portrayed at the expense of everything else - and even empowering Mungiki's objective to terrorise.
There must be other ways to lobby Ministers/Govt without dehumanising everyone else.
Wainaina
On 6/15/09, Luvisia Bakuli <luvisia.bakuli@gmail.com> wrote:
The media need to report both the good and the ugly news. Our wish that they focus more on positive stories than negative ones may not help the country in the long run. I think the anger voiced on the list at the current media stories about Mungiki's menace in Central Province is misdirected.
Real people are dieing in those villages and we cannot wish that those deaths were not reported. Rather let's pressurize the Minister and PS in charge of internal security, the Administration Police, Police, Paramilitary (GSU), CID, Special Branch, etc to contain this menace. These government officials should be made to account for these deaths –I think we need direct our anger and questions at these people not the media. Bakuli
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Wainana and Bakuli, While it is fine to focus on both 'good' and 'bad' news, it is imperative not to go to the extreme. Kenya's media is always biased... giving a negative lopsided information about the happenings in Kenya. Remember the PEV? Then what happens after the signing of the National Accord? The media is now focused on political views which are likely to spur another war. Maybe selling news makes profits for these companies, but what about the future of Kenya? My analysis of the media (I stand to be corrected: 1. *Al- Jazeera* talking wars, wars wars wherever they shoot, but mostly in the Middle East 2. *KBC* supports the government even when things are awry - in rare circumstances do we find it analyszing things from the objective perspective. Most of the information is based on the development agenda the government is doing 3. *KTN* anti-government listen to the analysis, news and commentaries, everything is against the government.And just like KBC will try to balance the news content depending on the volatility of the situation or when the other media is attaked politically 4. *NTV *and *CITIZEN *pro-government. Everything ranging from news, analysis commentaries, is inclined towards the government's position. Why did I draw this observations? - When the former Minister for Information, Raphael Tuju said that media should have 40% local content, he knew what he was talking about. The results would mean more local programmes whould be aired thus employment for the youth and upcoming creative minds. The 40% was just a stepping stone and it would probably increase as we continued to appreciate local media programmes. Only Citizen has achuieved promotion of local content by greater margin. - Most of the time we are 'idle'. By being 'idle' here I mean we only wait to watch news at one, four, seven and nine daily while most of the time is slated for music from the west, cartoons, documentaries, FA premier League and Mexican and South East Asian Soaps.This makes a curious observer, 'idle around' before the favourite programme mostly news is aired four times a day. Now this person might not be at home during the day and he/she only makes it home at eight waiting for the nine o'clock news. When he/she is at home, it is DSTV, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Super sport etc. In developed countried, such as the US and UK, they have programmes and TV stations for a specific audience. If you like cooking, there is a TV channel that concentrates on cooking 24 hours. The same also is true for gardening etc. This means everybody is occupied and you'll never hear of post election violence there and such petty stuff! - There is another phenomen which I have observed critically. Local media house tend to inclie towards international media house especially if it airing news or programme courtesy of the latter. For example, because CNN is presented on both KTN and NTV, these two stations will be pacjaging their content to fit CNN! A total lack of creativity. For instance, during the Budget Day speech, I saw NTV having their camera operators and a reporter, tell us how they covered the budget - running up and down. I've seen such a programme on CNN. KTN on the other hand would show us the new crane they recently acquired. If this is not conspicuous consumption, then I don't know what it is. I'm not in any way saying that our media houses are useless. They at least play a role of informing, entertaining and educating the masses. My views. 2009/6/15 Wainaina Mungai <wainaina@madeinkenya.org>
As one of the people who brought up the Mungiki issue, I'd like to clarify that my concern is having it overplayed - not that we should blackout such news.
The issues should be reported but not in the way they are being portrayed at the expense of everything else - and even empowering Mungiki's objective to terrorise.
There must be other ways to lobby Ministers/Govt without dehumanising everyone else.
Wainaina
On 6/15/09, Luvisia Bakuli <luvisia.bakuli@gmail.com> wrote:
The media need to report both the good and the ugly news. Our wish that they focus more on positive stories than negative ones may not help the country in the long run. I think the anger voiced on the list at the current media stories about Mungiki's menace in Central Province is misdirected.
Real people are dieing in those villages and we cannot wish that those deaths were not reported. Rather let's pressurize the Minister and PS in charge of internal security, the Administration Police, Police, Paramilitary (GSU), CID, Special Branch, etc to contain this menace. These government officials should be made to account for these deaths –I think we need direct our anger and questions at these people not the media. Bakuli
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Bikuli, In SA as many people died of xenophopic attacks as those who died in Kenya during post election violence. Similar violence continues in SA as it is happening in Kenya. These are economic problems the entire continent is facing but the coverage in Kenya is sensational. Can we separate the country from personality? Each family that I know of in Kenya has its own problems but not always you get to know these problems no matter how significant they are. Can we have a Kenyan family where as we sort out the problems, the image of the country is spared? Here in the US they have Red Necks, Ku Klax Clan but they do not give these people the prominence we give Mungiki and other similar organizations. Indeed media does a great job to highlight issues affecting mwananchi but let there be reasonable analysis of the problem and make suggestions. Internal Security Minister is not the only solution. Tribalism also is not our problem and if it was, there will not be a poor Kikuyu or Kalenjin. We must broadly address our economic imperatives to reduce our social imbalances that lead to crime. Ndemo
The media need to report both the good and the ugly news. Our wish that they focus more on positive stories than negative ones may not help the country in the long run. I think the anger voiced on the list at the current media stories about Mungiki's menace in Central Province is misdirected.
Real people are dieing in those villages and we cannot wish that those deaths were not reported. Rather let's pressurize the Minister and PS in charge of internal security, the Administration Police, Police, Paramilitary (GSU), CID, Special Branch, etc to contain this menace. These government officials should be made to account for these deaths âI think we need direct our anger and questions at these people not the media. Bakuli
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