On Feb 12, 2008 12:48 PM, Kanja Waruru <<a href="mailto:kanjawaruru@yahoo.com">kanjawaruru@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>The media did not operate in isolation during and<br>after the elections. And before we point fingers at<br>the media and blame it for everything under the sun,<br>perhaps we should first try to understand who the real<br>
players were in the elections and the general genesis<br>of the crises. </blockquote><div><br>While all Kenyans must reflect on what we could have done differently in the face of our current crisis, i would not hesitate to say that the media for a significant period of time, right from even before the referendum has not helped in many instances. <br>
<br>Considering that media helps us to receive information and news coming from events where we are not present, honestly, media ought to play more non-partisan and objective roles.<br><br>Its hard to ignore all the rumors of how certain media practitioners had been promised attractive appointments considering how news agendas were and continue to be set. <br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">During the elections the media was exercising the self<br>regulation rule and a lot of the stories that were<br>
filed during this period were censored because they<br>were hate speeches and issues not fit for printing but<br>we thought it would all die out after the elections<br>and things would also get back to normal.</blockquote>
<div><br>I think one thing that the media must learn, is to accept correction. They have fought it in many cases using such terms as self-regulation... <br></div></div><br>Remember once information has gone out through mass media, you cannot recall it and the best you can do is to publish an apology on small hidden column.<br>
<br>The worst happens when the same information causes its recipients to act in ways that no one had envisaged.<br><br>