Nice, But the media is far from self regulation. Or at least, we have not seen enough of that. The govt definitely has a role. <br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Mis-information</span> is really a great role the media is recently playing. <br>
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The public has to be guarded against irresponsible journalism and govt
is definitely one of those key stakeholders in ensuring this. A
supplier/s cannot be solely trusted on this.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kanja Waruru</b> <<a href="mailto:kanjawaruru@yahoo.com">kanjawaruru@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Alice,<br>In brief, the Bill seeks to establish<br>a Media Council of Kenya and a Media Advisory Board to
<br>regulate journalist, enforce a code of conduct and<br>manage a complaints committee.<br><br>The Media Owners Association has been campaigning<br>against establishment of statutory media regulation to<br>replace the existing self-regulation mechanism.
<br><br>On Thursday 17th May the MOA issued a press statement<br>to make their two points clear to the govt..<br><br>1, MOA rejects the Media Bill 2007.<br><br>2, We have our own Bill which we would be happy to<br>replace with the govt Bill.
<br><br>Will keep you posted on that.<br>Kanja<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________________________________________________<br>The fish are biting.<br>Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing.
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