[kictanet] [mediaeditors] Is Kenyan Media Asleep?

[Eng. Wainaina Mungai]

Wycliffe,

First, media houses cannot have 33,000 staff - one each at every polling
centre - but political parties do have such manpower and have conflicting
tallies. So the only credible source for the media is the IEBC....

That said, we need to admit as many Kenyans on social media already
satirically put forward that the foreign press is too eager to seek
negative news and will cling to the tiniest sign of bad news to spur a
story. Local media are more careful and are in a delicate manner still
informing the public of stories such as that raised by Edith - albeit with
less excitement than the foreign media would.


On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Edith Adera <eadera at idrc.ca> wrote:

> Listers,
>
> I appreciate the points of view on the need to be careful on how citizens
> receive the live broadcasts - makes sense to manage the situation. I
> however think that because news travels fast, this is still likely to get
> to Kenyans in the classical "broken telephone" mode, which means the
> citizens get distorted/corrupted information that makes the situation even
> worse.
>
> While the media seems to be carefully managed (some here calling it
> gagged), we need to make sure that the citizens atleast hear from our own
> media rather than foreigners as this news would still reach the people in
> distorted form.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wycliff Ochieng [mailto:cliffexx at gmail.com]
> Sent: March 7, 2013 1:07 PM
> To: Edith Adera
> Cc: KICTAnet - Media Editors Forum; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Is Kenyan Media Asleep?
>
> Edith,
> I think the local media seems to have been gagged to avoid raising
> political tension. All the media houses had their staff in the field and a
> in-house tallying centres from nearly all the constituencies but they are
> somehow afraid to share with the public since IEBC is the only body allowed
> to release elections results.
> I think situation, in my opinion raises un-certainty for no reason.
>
> Rgd,
> Cliff
>
>
> On 3/7/13, Edith Adera <eadera at idrc.ca> wrote:
> > Listers,
> >
> > With the information revolution, news makes round at the speed of light.
> >
> > Why should we be getting breaking news of this kind (below) from
> > international news? Why not from our local media? Should our source of
> > information be by international media houses?
> >
> > The media is represented on this list, what's going on?
> >
> > Agence France-Presse (@AFP) tweeted at 11:44 AM on Thu, Mar 07, 2013:
> > #BREAKING: Running mate of Kenya PM Odinga - one of the frontrunners
> > in Monday's presidential polls - alleges vote-rigging
> >
> > BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) tweeted at 0:02 PM on Thu, Mar 07, 2013:
> > Party of 2nd-placed candidate in Kenyan elections, Raila Odinga, says
> > it has evidence that results are being "doctored"
> >
>
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