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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Well said Wainaina, as someone who has worked in mainstream media…we hear you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Can we hear from Bwana Ndemo and Minister on this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Edith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.ca@lists.kictanet.or.ke]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Eng. Wainaina Mungai<br>
<b>Sent:</b> February 8, 2013 2:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Edith Adera<br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet - Media Editors Forum; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] [mediaeditors] Slaying the Tribal Monster! - The media again!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Exactly five years ago, in February 2008, we had this thread on Kictanet -
<a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/2008-February/003789.html">
http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/2008-February/003789.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As you can tell from the thread, the role of the media during elections is a delicate topic. However, we need to curve a new reality for Kenyan media. I believe in an enabling environment through regulation that tames vested interests of
individual media owners. I speak as one who has worked in the management teams of two private media houses after having been significantly involved in the National ICT Policy process, WSIS process and the digital migration debate. From experience, we need
regulation at all levels including ensuring media houses taking responsibility for content that goes through the airwaves licensed to them and legislating the requirement for
<b><u>privately-owned media houses</u></b>. to be impartial in coverage and responsible for their content. The Constitutional and legal provisions may be a powerful way for us to ensure responsible media. As such, we need to revisit
<b>Section 34</b> of the new Constitution which may hold the answer to the <b>loopholes</b> and barriers we created in the Constitutional review process. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#8C9F0D;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:normal">SECTION 34: FREEDOM OF THE MEDIA<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.4pt;background:#E8E8E8"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666">(1) Freedom and independence of electronic, print and all other<br>
types of media is guaranteed, but does not extend to any<br>
expression specified in Article 33 (2).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:#E8E8E8">(2) The State shall not—</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">(a) exercise control over or interfere with any person</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">engaged in broadcasting, the production or circulation</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">of any publication or the dissemination of information</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">by any medium; or</span><br>
<b><span style="background:#FFFF33">(b) penalise any person for any opinion or view or the<br>
content of any broadcast, publication or dissemination.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:#E8E8E8">establishment, subject only to licensing procedures that—</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">(a) are necessary to regulate the airwaves and other forms</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">of signal distribution; and</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">(b) are independent of control by government, political</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">interests or commercial interests.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:#E8E8E8">shall—</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666"><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">(a) be free to determine independently the editorial content</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">of their broadcasts or other communications;</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">(b) be impartial; and</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">(c) afford fair opportunity for the presentation of divergent</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">views and dissenting opinions.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:#E8E8E8">(5) Parliament shall enact legislation that provides for the</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666"><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">establishment of a body, which shall—</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">(a) be independent of control by government, political</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">interests or commercial interests;</span><br>
<span style="background:#E8E8E8">(b) reflect the interests of all sections of the society; and</span><br>
<b><span style="background:#FFFF33">(c) set media standards and regulate and monitor<br>
compliance with those standards.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <<a href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">blongwe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Thanks for sharing this Bwana Oloo,<br>
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This raises some very serious issues around the integrity of our media houses, the selfishness of our political aspirants, and the gullibility of our populace.<br>
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What measures can be taken to guard against further abuses?<br>
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Brian<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:12 AM, william janak <<a href="mailto:williamjanak@yahoo.com" target="_blank">williamjanak@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hello out there!<br>
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All the discussions and commitments we have been making within the media industry about the need for restraint have been lost, more so with the coverage of the recent party primaries. For instance, the undue focus and exaggeration of certain situations by
the media on Nyanza during the nominations and even now as we go towards the elections point to lack of restraint and a sense of responsibility. Of course there are other examples from other parts of the country.
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There are credible reports that a number of candidates massively bribed individual journalists and continue to retain some ahead of the elections to skew the reporting in their favour. Some of the demonstration arising from the nominations were manipulated
by the media and candidates. The demos, some of which were not necessarily spontaneous, were in some cases reported with glee as if that was what was expected.
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For instance, I was in Kisumu on Sunday January 20, 2013 when the media reported that "Kisumu was paralyzed" and that Kondele was a "no go zone" and people were asked to avoid the Kisumu-Kakamega road. I went up to Kondele and saw the less than 20 youths who
had lit fire on the Kondele -Kibos road. Traffic from Kakamega and Kibos was flowing and I used the route.<br>
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Most people simply watched them and went about their businesses as usual. The police came within less than ten minutes (actually Kondele Police Station is a stone throw away from the scene) and the youths helped the police to clear the road. Beyond the place-
less than 300 hundred metres away, people did not even notice anything was happening. Those (I included) who later watched the TV footage on the incident could not believe both the way the images were presented and the comments.<br>
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More than ten of my friends who knew I was in Kisumu called me - alarmed - and my assurances that Kisumu was calm fell on deaf years. A number cancelled their trips to Kisumu and also advise others that Kisumu was unsafe. A friend of mine who runs a hotel reported
more 5 of his regular guests who were due to arrive that day, canceling their bookings.<br>
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A two-day meeting with senior journalists and correspondents from all the six counties in Nyanza gave the clearest picture of the extent to which the reporting was manipulated both from Nairobi and locally and the interests and influences that attended to the
period and which apparently continue, and will into the actual polling day. <br>
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Two journalists in one of the counties, were at one time virtually coerced -in the night - by two contesting sides to announce incomplete results and got virtually held hostage when they refused to take the bribe money they were offered. The same groups bribed
returning officers and threatened others. <br>
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In some areas, including Nyatike, some journalists have been completely barred or face such threats due to their perceived support for some candidates. Indeed most of the reports currently being carried by the media are actually sourced from on phone and from
sources, both within the government and others that cannot be cannot be described as credible, or capable of giving the true picture of the situation.
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There is an initiative I am involved in with others, to compile some information on these trends. Journalists were also under pressure or became victims of bribery in other parts of the country including Mombasa, Nairobi, Rift Valley, Central among others.
The attitude and interests of some editors and media houses is not encouraging or helpful at all.<br>
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Some candidates had unfettered access to some media houses to declare themselves winners or "thank" people in their regions for electing them even when they did not win! Talk show hosts in some stations acted and continue to act as party activists in their
comments, declaring which candidate will win and the others who will be "taught a lesson".<br>
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I think we are not being honest and we are going to again debate the role of the media in fueling conflicts after the elections. More ominously, the safety and security of some journalists across the country will be compromised.<br>
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Oloo Janak.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> "<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" target="_blank">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>" <<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" target="_blank">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:williamjanak@yahoo.com" target="_blank">williamjanak@yahoo.com</a>
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<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet - Media Editors Forum <<a href="mailto:mediaeditors@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">mediaeditors@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 6, 2013 7:03 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Slaying the Tribal Monster!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Edith,<br>
We had a press conference today about the same but everytime we raise<br>
these issues we get abused by very educated people. Politicians are<br>
supposed to expound on their Manifesto in public rallies and on TV but<br>
what we have seen is actually an attempt to fan violence through lies. We<br>
must refuse this as a people if we love this country. Politicians are<br>
ordinarily followers such that if we refuse to listen to their inciting<br>
messages, they will revert to something else possibly issues.<br>
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Ndemo.<br>
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> Listers,<br>
><br>
> I can't resist but share my pain....that indeed the media can entertain<br>
> "raw tribal discussions" on live TV! While one may argue that it's reality<br>
> and we must deal with it, if it divides us and tears us apart, why not<br>
> pursue other alternatives?...why not take advantage of this defining<br>
> moment in our history (backed by the current constitution) to build a NEW<br>
> FOUNDATION and help the country "unlearn" these bad habits that we've been<br>
> socialized into over the years and has taken us no-where? It's possible to<br>
> "unlearn"!!<br>
><br>
> The good bible tells us "teach thy children the ways of the Lord and they<br>
> shall never depart from it"....in the same vein "feed Kenyans with<br>
> positive vibes and we shall build a stronger and more united country"<br>
><br>
> Media (which forms this important industry represented on this list) is<br>
> well aware that by their very nature, they "set the agenda and shape<br>
> public opinion". You have a huge responsibility to play in carving a great<br>
> future for Kenya, stand up and resist ethnic division in this country. We<br>
> must build our nation based on development concerns and address issues<br>
> dear to the hearts of Kenyans.<br>
><br>
> When last time (2007/2008), Bwana Ndemo gave his opinion (official or<br>
> non-official) about the role the media played in 2007, I wonder if he<br>
> wasn't right? Where is NCIC? Where is the Media Council?<br>
><br>
> This madness has to stop!<br>
><br>
> Edith (my heart is bleeding for Kenya).<br>
><br>
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