Dear Andrea<br><br>Bitte sehr. <br><br>Please send us the thoughtful coverage that has occurred since March 9 so we can compliment them. <br><br>I am technically foreign. Of course I will apply the same amount of scrutiny and criticism to the local media. <br>
<br>Kind regards, Warigia<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:52 PM, 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">Maybe Kenya would have been important enough anyway to cover the elections? And I know of many Kenyans who also stocked up on food as well (when they haven't left the country) - you just needed to spend a bit of time in supermarket queues before the elections to see that it was a very solid mix of everyone who lives here. <br>
<br>Any Kenyan would rightly take offense with being wholesale painted as tribal murderers based on 1,500 people having died in 2007/early 08. But what you do is turn around and do exactly the same thing to 'foreign media'. <br>
<br>Yes, there were completely idiotic, wrong, stereotypical articles, and they should be ridiculed every single one. But there were also many competent, insightful, sober pieces. And there are many members of the international who don't just swoop in for elections, but actually live here. Maybe we can judge them one by one rather than condemning all of them wholesale? <br>
<br>In this forum, it will probably be a tricky argument to make that some of the international media actually still (soberly, factually) reported where the local media just shut up. So I won't make it. <br><br>And in the meantime, I hope that everyone who's so irritated with the international media will apply the same amount of scrutiny and criticism to the local media and the corruption inside that system. <br>
<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 11 March 2013 20:18, Warigia Bowman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warigia@gmail.com" target="_blank">warigia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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Personally, I am feeling very angry at the foreign media. Thanks Evans for this shocking ridiculousness. we need to expose them!<br><br>I wrote this yesterday. <br><br><a href="http://digitaldemocracykenya.blogspot.com/2013/03/feeling-frustrated-with-change-in-press.html" target="_blank">http://digitaldemocracykenya.blogspot.com/2013/03/feeling-frustrated-with-change-in-press.html</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Evans Ikua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ikua.evans@gmail.com" target="_blank">ikua.evans@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Wow, this is a gem from Time:<br><br><br>"At this election, with a new 2010 constitution, and a new electoral body
with a new — though not glitch-free — electronic voting system,
Kenyans’ determination to hold a peaceful election has been palpable.
<b>The popular mood has also been notably anti-Western. <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Foreign diplomats
have been warned of blood-curdling revenge should they interfere in the
poll</span></b>. <b>Foreign journalists have been publicly ridiculed and denounced as
prejudiced if they predicted chaos and disaster.</b> And a central message
of most candidates’ campaigns was strident, patriotic
self-determination."<div style="text-align:left;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;border:medium none"><br>Read more: <a style="color:#003399" href="http://world.time.com/2013/03/09/kenyas-election-what-uhuru-kenyattas-victory-means-for-africa/#ixzz2NE3fBw4v" target="_blank">http://world.time.com/2013/03/09/kenyas-election-what-uhuru-kenyattas-victory-means-for-africa/#ixzz2NE3fBw4v</a><span><font color="#888888"><br>
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