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

[Ali Hussein]

Ory

I totally agree with your sentiments on this.  

Ali Hussein
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On Oct 11, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Ory Okolloh <ookolloh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Grace.
> 
> My issue -  there's a big difference between including a link to a Blog / Blog post e.g. Kachwanya's - and calling comments on a discussion list a blog. 
> 
> Kivuva, re the harm - its one thing if you search the Kictanet archives online or come across them and see my comments in context of a discussion thread etc.   I'm well aware that this is not a private forum   
> 
> Cutting and pasting them into a print publication without context / checking with me is poor journalism, at best. 
> 
> Ory
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) <nmutungu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Blog of the week is a columnett in the Business Daily that features
>> interesting blogs as they appeared on the Net...it usually runs on
>> Mondays (I think) and it seems not to be on the online paper.
>> 
>> Sometime back Kachwanya of Bloggers Association was also featured. See
>> http://www.kachwanya.com/business-daily-blog-of-the-week-kachwanya-com/
>> 
>> Seems like a collection of stories from the public domain....
>> 
>> On 11/10/2012, Ory Okolloh <ookolloh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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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