[kictanet] how positive can foreign media be?

[Warigia Bowman]

Dear Andrea

Bitte sehr.

Please send us the thoughtful coverage that has occurred since March 9 so
we can compliment them.

I am technically foreign. Of course I will apply the same amount of
scrutiny and criticism to the local media.

Kind regards, Warigia

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Andrea Bohnstedt <
andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com> wrote:

> Maybe Kenya would have been important enough anyway to cover the
> elections? And I know of many Kenyans who also stocked up on food as well
> (when they haven't left the country) - you just needed to spend a bit of
> time in supermarket queues before the elections to see that it was a very
> solid mix of everyone who lives here.
>
> Any Kenyan would rightly take offense with being wholesale painted as
> tribal murderers based on 1,500 people having died in 2007/early 08. But
> what you do is turn around and do exactly the same thing to 'foreign
> media'.
>
> Yes, there were completely idiotic, wrong, stereotypical articles, and
> they should be ridiculed every single one. But there were also many
> competent, insightful, sober pieces. And there are many members of the
> international who don't just swoop in for elections, but actually live
> here. Maybe we can judge them one by one rather than condemning all of them
> wholesale?
>
> In this forum, it will probably be a tricky argument to make that some of
> the international media actually still (soberly, factually) reported where
> the local media just shut up. So I won't make it.
>
> And in the meantime, I hope that everyone who's so irritated with the
> international media will apply the same amount of scrutiny and criticism to
> the local media and the corruption inside that system.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11 March 2013 20:18, Warigia Bowman <warigia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Personally, I am feeling very angry at the foreign media. Thanks Evans
>> for this shocking ridiculousness. we need to expose them!
>>
>> I wrote this yesterday.
>>
>>
>> http://digitaldemocracykenya.blogspot.com/2013/03/feeling-frustrated-with-change-in-press.html
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Wow, this is a gem from Time:
>>>
>>>
>>> "At this election, with a new 2010 constitution, and a new electoral
>>> body with a new — though not glitch-free — electronic voting system,
>>> Kenyans’ determination to hold a peaceful election has been palpable. *The
>>> popular mood has also been notably anti-Western. Foreign diplomats have
>>> been warned of blood-curdling revenge should they interfere in the poll*.
>>> *Foreign journalists have been publicly ridiculed and denounced as
>>> prejudiced if they predicted chaos and disaster.* And a central message
>>> of most candidates’ campaigns was strident, patriotic self-determination."
>>>
>>> Read more:
>>> http://world.time.com/2013/03/09/kenyas-election-what-uhuru-kenyattas-victory-means-for-africa/#ixzz2NE3fBw4v
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *----------------------------------------------------
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Evans Ikua,*
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>> --
>> Dr. Warigia Bowman
>> Assistant Professor
>> Clinton School of Public Service
>> University of Arkansas
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>
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-- 
Dr. Warigia Bowman
Assistant Professor
Clinton School of Public Service
University of Arkansas
wbowman at clintonschool.uasys.edu
http://democratizingegypt.blogspot.com
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