[kictanet] Abuse of KICTANET forum by Biz.Daily journalist

[Ory Okolloh]

Let me clarify with the person who sent it to me.

Ory



On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Ory
>
> Could kindly clarify. Is this blog in the Business Daily of NMG?
>
> Usually newspapers carry email addresses of authors as a sign of good
> faith. *HOWEVER,* you should have been informed that the paper intended
> to carry your comments for you to indicate if you were okay with that.
>
> Rgds
> GG
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:36:51 +0200
> From: ookolloh at gmail.com
> Subject: [kictanet] Abuse of KICTANET forum by Biz.Daily journalist
> CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
>
> Dear listers,
>
> A friend in Nairobi just emailed me this print article (attached)  in the
> Biz Daily paper where my comments on the ETNO proposal last week are
> featured as the "blog of the week" and my personal email address included
> as the "title of the blog"
>
> This is an outrageous abuse of this forum where the discussion is often
> open and insightful - do people now have to worry that their comments on
> Kictanet will be passed off as an article somewhere?
>
> *vexed*
>
>
> Ory
> *I try to keep my emails short and to the point: http://emailcharter.org/*
>
>
>
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