<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Dear Becky,</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">I hear you.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">The FOI is sometimes viewed as an elitist right That only journalists and scientists/researchers are to use it) </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">However, consisder a situation today if you were not allowed to ask questions and get answers BY RIGHT ( as published by government in the daily papers in the last two weeks on the RVF in Kenya)? </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Remember the controversy on the spread of SARS.....in the Far East...was a lack of info not a key issue?</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">This is how basic this right when enacted would entail..... proactive publication in the public interest.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">More views please.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Rebecca Wanjiku <rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com><BR>To: kihanyajn@yahoo.com<BR>Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:13:58 PM<BR>Subject: [kictanet] calling media<BR><BR>
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<DIV>the FOI bill affects the media sector more than any other,</DIV>
<DIV>can the media practioners please fwd their contributions....... Kanja??????</DIV>
<DIV>it may be important to discuss these issues before going too far (read ICT debate and the whole question of cross ownership)</DIV>
<DIV>the earlier we raise them, the better,</DIV>
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<DIV>somebodyyyy??????<BR> </DIV><BR> </DIV>Rebecca Wanjiku,<BR>journalist,<BR>p.o box 33515, <BR>Nairobi.00600<BR>Kenya.<BR><BR>Tel. 254 720 318 925<BR><BR>blog:http://beckyit.blogspot.com/
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