I stand with Dorcas on the media issue. What the media is saying is like Paul Wolfowitz insisting that he should from now on be allowed to "self-regulate" ;-) so that he can effectively police corruption in developing countries (as he had promised when he was appointed). Laws/rules should not scare our fellow Kenyans in the media unless they know they will soon cross a line they should not. We saw it with the 'matatu' industry that was a law unto themselves ("self-regulating") until order was forced on them by the government. Our media has already failed to play the role of a conscience for our society. When our conscience is dead, the law has to be put to effect to guide us. --- Wainaina Mungai

-------Original Message------- From: Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Media Bill Sent: 18 May '07 18:06

Nice, But the media is far from self regulation. Or at least, we have not seen enough of that. The govt definitely has a role.

Mis-information is really a great role the media is recently playing.

The public has to be guarded against irresponsible journalism and govt is definitely one of those key stakeholders in ensuring this. A supplier/s cannot be solely trusted on this.

On 5/18/07, KANJA WARURU <[LINK: mailto:kanjawaruru@yahoo.com] kanjawaruru@yahoo.com> wrote: Alice, In brief, the Bill seeks to establish a Media Council of Kenya and a Media Advisory Board to regulate journalist, enforce a code of conduct and manage a complaints committee.

The Media Owners Association has been campaigning against establishment of statutory media regulation to replace the existing self-regulation mechanism.

On Thursday 17th May the MOA issued a press statement to make their two points clear to the govt..

1, MOA rejects the Media Bill 2007.

2, We have our own Bill which we would be happy to replace with the govt Bill.

Will keep you posted on that. Kanja

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