The journalists are usually empty and probably camped at Alliance waiting for the announcement that it was tops. The unexpected happens and without adequate briefing, they resort to their natural selves; asking stupid questions.

Where did they go to school anyway? Next to the politicians, journalists are the second most serious tribulation facing this country.

The level of education of the ordinary journalist is of such a low index that majority can not play a role in agenda setting. Instead, they are reduced to reading tired cliches
like "rude shock", "lets crack the numbers / over to the financials" and the most nauseating one; "...today engaged the police in running battles". There was a guy in my high school who was so poor acdemically (not to mean that academic excellence directly translates to professional competence) ,in school yet he has a column in one of the dailies. His articles are usually poorly researched and can can always be challenged on logic.


The few who are able to engage their inner faculties when talking to viewers like LO are quick to destroy themselves...or leave for other sectors like Kathleen

I keep saying but no one listens.
We have sub-standard journalism

Well said.

They lost the Kiswahili crown to.....Kisumu Girls High School.

"Maranda High School emerged the winner in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) 2011 results released on Wednesday by Education Minister Prof Sam Ongeri"

This above is taken off one the social media newsfeeds of the "authoritative" media house's online news edition.

According to them, the KCSE was a race or competition and Maranda was the winner. When the rest of us are trying to chnage the mindsets of our youths so that they see exams in the right perspective, our media mon***s are doing the reverse.

Why don't they go ahead and tell us who the loosers were? Or what Maranda has won?

To think they would probably put the best (brain) of them at the handles of a social media newscast, which is the equivalent of a loaded canon. Arhhhg!