I agree alot with what @yawe says. Switch off the radio and the financial pressure will reel them in. On the same note, what purpose is this fancy media council or supposed self regulatory framework they have?<div><span></span> There have been so many petitions for the seedy shows on radio in the morning to be sanitized with zero input from the media council. <div>
I can only conclude that it is totally useless. <br><br>On Thursday, June 27, 2013, robert yawe wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
@All<br><br>Unlike many of you who do nothing but twit (pun intended) I take action first with myself, then my children and finally the larger society. I only listen to sensible stations when I am driving, it is either Radio Waumini or BBC on the rare occasion that I need to switch the radio on as most times I prefer to listen to myself think, alternatively I have a collection of CD's (yet to upgrade to flash drives).<br>
<br>When I am in the car with my wive, children or friend I will avoid turning on the radio and instead indulge in verbal discussion even if the topic is as nonsensical as why the bee can fly against the basic laws of physics (it is all about the vortex - learnt that from my son)<br>
<br>Finally if I am in a matatu and they are tuned to those vulgar discussions, I will politely ask them to turn it off or
change channels, if they refuse I will incite the person nearest in age to me in the vehicle and if that does not work I will insult the makanga and/or driver as for them to haul back their insults they will have to turn off the radio finally if that fails the speaker nearest to me will suddenly stop working (speakers use 1.5 to 3 volts work out the rest for yourself). <br>
<br>For those of you raising issues about what is showing on TV it is time you learnt to use the features on your expensive TV/decoder that allows you to lock channels, but since many of you have a phobia for reading you will prefer to insist that CCK controls what your children and you are watching from the broadcast end, remember that there are those who benefit from some of those topics and for that reason your TV was supplied with an OFF switch.<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> John Kariuki <<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk');" target="_blank">ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk');" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> Consumer and Public Affairs <<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'CPA@cck.go.ke');" target="_blank">CPA@cck.go.ke</a>>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke');" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 26 June 2013, 20:13<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] FW: Day-time Vulgar Conversations on Kenya Media<br> </font> </div>
<div><br><div><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><span>Walu,Listers,</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
<span><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"><span>In year 2001 at Safari Park Hotel in a broadcasting stakeholders meeting, a prominent MD of a Media House told the audience plainly that if they did not like the programmes then they could switch-off the radio/TV. I doubt if the attitude has changed.</span></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"><span>Unlike social media ,the
broadcasters are actually picking our resource(spectrum -a public resource) to mess the future generations of the same owners of the resource.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
Any student of media will tell you that sex,sports and drugs do sell and sell very well. However as a society do we really wish to promote some of these to our own detriment. No western or even eastern democratic country allows this,.We are obviously a bad exception.</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">It is a clear PUBLIC POLICY issue urgently seeking a solution.</div><div><br>
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John Kariuki</div> <div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr">
<hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Walubengo J <<a>jwalu@yahoo.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a>ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> Consumer and Public Affairs <<a>CPA@cck.go.ke</a>>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a>kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 26 June 2013, 18:25<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re:
[kictanet] FW: Day-time Vulgar Conversations on Kenya Media<br> </font> </div> <div><br><div><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">@Mutunga aka Mutwiri <br>
<br>As a married man, am not against sex or its content per se :-) <br><br>I am simply against "commoditizing"/"cheapening" sex and bringing it down to the same level as if you are discussing "which shoes or dress you will wear today or how different they were from what you wore yesterday". This is essentially what the FM stations in particular are doing as they try to work-up the number of listeners in a view to increase market share and subsequently adverstising revenue.<br>
<br>The thing is that I am over 18 and so I know this part of wisdom. On the other hand my 13year old son does not yet know/understand this and
bombarding
him with sex stories from 6am in the morning, at lunch time and through the evening will never give him the chance to come to this level of understanding.
Yes, he may still access the same content online (FB, Twitter, etc) - but as a Society, we should never "sanitize" such behaviour by accepting it or tolerating in our public discourse. (and this answers those who always say -change the channel)<br>
<br>And if the media cannot protect our kids from this, the Regulator has an obligation to do so. And I am not seeking for HEAVY censorship here from the Regulator. We simply need the regulator to implement what in the industry globally knows as the "watershed schedule?" :-Implement the Timing for when Adult content can be allowed on our broadcasting airwaves.<br>
<br>walu.<br><br>----------------------------------------------------<br><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt">
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