[kictanet] The role of Media in political developement

Wed May 9 22:37:00 EAT 2012

This reminds me of the "public vetting" processes we have witnessed under the new constitution. The political class needs to go through the same type of vetting - open, non-partisan, public debates and scrutiny.

That's the style to follow and the voters will chose for themselves!

Edith

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From: kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke [kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Edwin Onchari [eonchari at lynxbits.com]
Sent: 09 May 2012 19:47
To: Edith Adera
Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'
Subject: Re: [kictanet] The role of Media in political developement

Listers/Daktari,

I agree that indeed, it is time that the forum took the center stage in
generating issues that media can use to create such  "town hall" style
meetings. Just like in the US for instance, media houses such as NBC, ABC
CBS, etc host shows such as "State of the nation, etc" In these shows
politicians are taken to task and asked tough questions on where they stand
on several issues. They go further and interrogate past political stands of
their leaders such as "How & why they voted on certain bills", etc. If this
forum spearheaded such an initiative with the support of the media, the
political class will stand on notice that they must to steer clear of empty,
not so useful and dangerous rhetoric in favor of progressive leadership.

I say we go for it, we owe the next generations at least this much...we can
do it!

Best Regards,

Edwin

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Barrack,
In the front page of the New York Times is Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana
bowing out after his defeat in the Republican primary.  Sen. Lugar has been
in the Senate close to 40 years shaping the US policy.  His sins are that he
is a moderate as fae as the divide between conservatives and democrats.

He was defeated by a far right candidate under the banner of Tea Party
within the conservative party.  Although the Tea Party is popular, they did
not split to form a new party.  They are simply re defining the conservative
agenda.

Our politics has not changed much since we. have never looked beyond our
ethnicity.  In defence of a single party Moi said multi party will divide
the country.  And true to his word we are more divided today than we were at
independence.  At independence we more ideological to the extent that Kaggia
leaned more to Odinga than Mboya who was a Kenyatta protege.

The younger generation must begin to change this a round issues.  This
however is not happening.  Youth who should be our hope are being used to
advance separatist movements such as MRC, Mungiki, Chinkororo etc.  These
organisations are threatening the economic gains we have made under
President Kibaki.  To hang on to this momentum, we must not allow self
seekers to destroy the country, to misuse the youth and above all to create
division among ourselves.

We have the greatest opportunity today to create employment like never
before but unfortunately politics is taking centre stage. We must refuse and
take individual responsibility on that which is happening as we watch.

I am challenging this Forum to take its rightful responsibility and seek for
an issue based debate among all declared candidates.  Let us know what they
plan to do with:
Youth
Unemployment
Food security
Education
Health and more.

In the US Media has a responsibility to organise town hall debates to allow
every citizen to be heard.  We are the New Media.  We can generate the
issues here then use the forum to enhance the political debates.  In the
absence of anything politicians will always revert to siasa ya kumalizana.

Regards

Ndemo.

Sent from my BlackBerryR

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Subject: [kictanet] The role of Media in political developement

Listers,

Having watched a couple of programmes focusing on current political
happenings i am left wondering on the role of the media, are some of
this media houses engaged in political activism or are they educating
the masses?. Why cant media houses be more innovative and focus on
debates such as what we had on this list  (Ndemo for president). This
populist debates centered around opinions are a recipe for chaos. One
just needs to look at what happened in Sabatia to know what can happen
when this opinion contests are not handled well. We need to evaluate
the possible impact of some of this opinion based discussions, they
may shore up profits for media houses but divide the country.

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Barrack O. Otieno
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+254-20-2498789
Skype: barrack.otieno
http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/

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