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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Gaitho,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I was one time in the Diaspora. Some of my friends working for
global newsprints made many attempts to come home and work for some of our
national newsprints. Unfortunately, they were not able to get the jobs in
spite of making every attempt to be considered and work in their motherland. It
is not encouraging when such people apply and they do not even get a reply. I
can share with you some of these outstanding CVs with a proven record.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Ndemo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
kictanet-bounces+bndemo=information.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+bndemo=information.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>william janak<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bitange Ndemo<br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Gaitho, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>I also
agree that some of those who grumble may not have the requisite qualifications.
Some are also afraid to apply for jobs. But it is also true some are good but
have not got jobs in the local media industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Oloo Janak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Macharia
Gaitho <mgaitho@ke.nationmedia.com><br>
<b>To:</b> william janak <williamjanak@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:12 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint</span><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span
style='color:black'>Good people,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span
style='color:black'>I really get disturbed with all these blanket statements
about good editors unable to get jobs “because they do not know someone or have
no money to bribe” as good Dr Ndemo puts it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span
style='color:black'>Some of us spend ages trying to get the best people
available, but they are hard to get. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span
style='color:black'>This market is critically short of good sub-editors, and
I’m quite sure no one with the required skills would miss a position at any of
the main media houses. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span
style='color:black'>All too often it is the mediocre who forever complain that
they cannot get jobs because they do not know the right person, are not from
the right tribe, or do not have money to bribe <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span
style='color:black'>This morning I watched a TV talk show featuring assistant
minister for Youth Wavinya Ndeti. One of the callers was grumbling that he has
a degree in IT, but the only jobs available through the ‘Kazi kwa Vijana’
programme was digging trenches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span
style='color:black'>An IT graduate is looking at Kazi kwa Vijana? He does not
know what his peers, young Kenyans, are doing developing programmes and
applications and creating jobs?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span
style='color:black'>These must be the kind of fellows who forever grumble about
discrimination and corruption in the job market, but show no initiative on how
they can apply their training and skills to create their own jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span
style='color:black'>Or maybe they are just so useless no one will employ them
in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>
kictanet-bounces+mgaitho=nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+mgaitho=nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>william janak<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Macharia Gaitho<br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint</span><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>I want to
agree with Dr. Ndemo. Taking work seriously is important. Again, certainly,
there are many good, top notch editors, who have no chance of being hired
locally because of all the considerations we know. I know a friend of mine in
Rwanda who is in the process of poaching/engaging some of them and I will
actively help some of our colleagues to lin up with him and other openings in the
region if they are not appreciated at home. There are many people who take
language casually. It requires sustained improvement to master the
language-English or any other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Oloo
Janak.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>
"bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke><br>
<b>To:</b> williamjanak@yahoo.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 11, 2011 8:08 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint<br>
</span><span style='color:black'><br>
Catherine,<br>
I think we are approaching this discussion the wrong way. If you have
been employed to be an Editor, then be the best in the World. You simply
have to take the job seriously.<br>
<br>
You need to watch Michael Jackson's "This is it" in order to
understand what taking your job seriously mean. You will begin to understand
why he was good. Similarly, we can have good editors. The Indians
have succeeded in this yet we think we have better grasp of the language.<br>
<br>
There are good Editors out there but they are kept out of the job either
because they do not know someone or have no money to bribe and get the
job. Do we know how the hiring is done? For us to succeed we must
first accept our inadequacies, our rotten habbits, our biases, our tribalist
tendancies, our ...<br>
<br>
There is no sabstitute for hard work and transparency. If we embrace
these simple rules, our publications will change over night. It is time
we accept that governance issue for this country does not only affect the
Government. We must get rid of it from our society.<br>
<br>
This is the root cause of our bad image in everything we do.<br>
<br>
<br>
Ndemo.<br>
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