Mar 21, 2014 Nyeri Online.Com Editorial Nyeri Online.Com Editorial 2
The Media serves to Inform,Educate and Entertain-Agreed.
The Principles of Journalism entail; truthfulness, Objectivity,Impartiality, Accuracy, Fairness and Public Accountability- Agreed.
Now,Let us Ponder and Interrogate several arising Questions;
1. On Truthfulness; A Man and Wife are arrested In Karatina In A Lodging (let us Pause for a while and ask,how did the Media get there so fast, in time to catch the man undo His Belt? what if the media would have been just as fast in arriving at Mweiga to report on emerging cottage industries?) . A man and wife in Giakanja celebrate the return of their son who had joined Mungiki…This Is Not News!
2. On Accuracy; Parents of A Nyeri Primary School are always Drunk ( the TV Caption show a staggering Man walking)-Nyeri Does It Again…. The School Writes to clarify that the drunk man depicted in the caption is not a parent of the School,and that in fact He is not known to the School-is the clarification made with the same energy,No! Why? It Is Not News!
3. On Objectivity; …
4. On Fairness; is it fair to continuously and vigorously Depict Nyeri County In bad light, is it that there is nothing positive to show about Nyeri County,Nothing at all? okay supposing we take the analogy of Abraham, and the Nyeri Scribes Serve as God We ask;
“Then Abraham approached the Nyeri scribes and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous/positive stories to favor the wicked stories ?What if there are fifty righteous Stories in the County? Will you really sweep the good and positive stories away or will your spare the county for sake of the fifty righteous/positive stories in it?
5. On Public Accountability; We can tempted to laud stories and reporting that have created awareness on social vices in the society such as Alcoholism,Domestic violence, but we must quickly retreat to interrogate further and ask,why? were such stories deliberate attempts to use a powerful avenue-Media – to bring forth change or was it another case of “Look at the Drunk Young Man from Nyeri County…Nyeri County Does It Again”.
Bottom line-Maybe its easy to find queer news from Nyeri County,but Nyeri County is not the only County with Queer News.
We Guarantee- and you can take this fact to your favorite Equity Bank Branch and cash it-than Nyeri County has a lot to offer in terms of creativity,innovation, talents,inspiration and motivation,Agriculture,Tourism and so much more.
We Guarantee-Again bank on this- that Nyeri County Men and women Fight and Nyeri County Men and Women Make- Up
We Guarantee- Money Back Guarantee- that for every cow and chicken stories,lies thousands and thousands of successful rehabilitation stories.
We urge you,gate keepers of the truth and information to-with the same strengths and energies used in chasing Adulterous couples in Karatina or Analyzing defiled Chicken with minute to minute updates- Objectively and positively report of Nyeri County.
The Media is the Societies Mirror? but what if you are staring at the wrong mirror? what if the mirror is inclined wrongly? what if the mirror is not clean enough? what then.
In the meantime,the Nyeri County Chicken has crossed the road…..and Alas there was prime News!
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