<font size="4"><font face="times new roman,serif">I'm writing a paper about reliability & information just now. One of the more interesting bits of psychology research I've come across is this: even very children quickly pick up the importance of assessing informants for reliability. And one of the ways they do it is to ask whether the informant has an obvious interest in the information. This is a lesson the <i>Star</i> appears not to have learnt: if your test for the reliability of information coming into your newsroom is to ask some other person in the newsroom --- to ask <i>another</i> person with a strong interest in the information being true --- then you haven't really improved matters. It would be nice if they saw fit to appoint some sort of independent fact checker.</font></font><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 June 2012 11:23, Andrea Bohnstedt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com" target="_blank">andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Here's a comment from the Star's public editor, Karen Rothmeyr, which ran in today's edition: <br><br><a href="http://www.the-star.co.ke/public-ed/79992-where-there-is-smoke-there-may-not-be-fire" target="_blank">http://www.the-star.co.ke/public-ed/79992-where-there-is-smoke-there-may-not-be-fire</a><br>
<br>Worth a read. <br><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 June 2012 13:32, Muchiri Nyaggah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:muchiri@semacraft.com" target="_blank">muchiri@semacraft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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The managing editor takes responsibility. I'm hoping that's not a question they are asking themselves at The Star.<div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Kind regards,<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Chelimo Ken <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken@kenyatelecentres.org" target="_blank">ken@kenyatelecentres.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear all,</div><div>It is actually very disgusting to see everything (picture and the caption) being presented wrongly in the newspaper. I doubt the credibility of the editors who are bound to counter check all stories and captions and ensure that they are correct. Somebody seems to be sleeping on the job. As far as newspaper editing is concerned, somebody has to take responsibility for this blunder but who is it? The managing editor, news editor, sub-editor or photo editor?</div>
<div> </div><div>Ken<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Odhiambo Washington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com" target="_blank">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div><div>It's not enough to offer apology on FaceBook. Personally I'd like to see that prominently on Page 1, in print. It also nonsensical that they are unable to verify facts. I wonder if they will apologise again on Facebook that their photo and caption in the front pages today are blatantly wrong!<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Andrea Bohnstedt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com" target="_blank">andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div><div>I saw someone's comment on Facebook yesterday that the picture was a stock photograph and forwarded it to the managing editor. They printed a correction today, saying that a reader had called in and offered a photograph from the crash, and I also noticed that Paul Ilado posted an apology on Facebook yesterday. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 12 June 2012 11:50, Barrack Otieno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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Agreed Washi, we need responsible journalism. The Ps did the right thing.<br><br>Best Regards<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Odhiambo Washington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com" target="_blank">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div><div>I am beginning to hate the STAR now. It appears that they always want to look sensational with their news, which stops them from verifying the facts. Something reminds me that they appointed a lady recently to look into complaints such as I want to raise now, but I don't remember her contacts.<br>
<br>Yesterday, the STAR published a photo in the front page, allegedly of the crashed Police Chopper, with smoke billowing from the engine.<br>Today the STAR has again published a photo, in the front page, of one of the deceased pilots inside the cockpit of a different aircraft, wnd which the STAR shamelessly alleges is the cockpit of the aircraft that crashed.<br>
<br>First, the photo they published yesterday is not even of a same model chopper as the one that crashed.<br>Secondly, the photo they have today is the cockpit of an aircraft registered as 5Y-STA as opposed to 5Y-CDT which belongs to the chopper that crashed.<br>
<br>Of late I have seen quite some misinformation inside the STAR. Could that be what they mean by "Fresh, Independent, Different"? That they are unable to verify simple facts?<br><br>I am glad PS Ndemo has filed a complaint against this publication, which is almost becoming pamphlet derivative.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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