[kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

Mon Oct 10 10:36:50 EAT 2011

Hi all,

I would personally blame it on cost-cutting. We have journalism and English experts in newsrooms, but they have too much on their hands to spot the most obvious and embarrassing mistakes in our publications. 

Mistakes can be costly. Remember during Amini's time in Uganda, the dictator had criticised a female MP, and so the paper splashed the following morning "Amini rapes MP" when he meant "RAPS". I hear, he was killed at down as he brushed his teeth in his house.

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From: Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com>
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James,
The PS has a point and I am not disputing yours either but I would simply respond to your email below that generalizations is what has got us where we are. Specificity can help more.....

Nyaki

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Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2011 11:16 PM
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Bwana PS what are you insinuating? We open our newsrooms fro the so called English majors? Some of them are in the newsrooms already...maybe they are sleeping on the job...my opinion

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:11 PM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:

All of today's newspapers had several grammatical errors.  At this time and age of ICT, is it not too embarrasing to have such errors?  We have  thousands of English majors without jobs.  It is time for media to be thorough in what they do by utilizing our many graduates without jobs.  As a Kenyan I get embarrased to see such errors.
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