Guys,I've read all the contributions on this thread - even the extremely engaging OT - with growing amusement. Am afraid some of you just have no understanding how the media works and make wholesale condemnations or judgements based on scanty evidence.I agree that Jeff Koinange does a great job on Capital Talk and I can't begin to compare myself with him, not least because of his years of experience. Having said that, I think I try my ultimate best to give every side of a story equal airtime. Let me cite the most recent example. I interview the Airtel boss Rene Meza on the same day they introduced their feelanga free tariff and gave him a platform to state his case. Two days later, I had Safaricom's Bob Collymore where he called Airtel's price move 'morally reprehensible. And two days later, I had Orange's Mickael Ghossein who called Airtel a 'vegetable company' and agreed with Bob. Only yu haven't come through but we gave them the opportunity and they declined.About taking in viewer feedback, practically every show on every channel ends with contact info for getting in touch and I can tell you, most people do not. In the few instances when they do, they mostly ask for contacts of someone featured on those shows. On Money Matters for instance, we get just about 5 emails a week that are of suggestions about what to have on the show. The rest want contacts or just write to say they like the show.I can't say I do the best job on local TV, but I think I try my damn best not to waste our viewers' time. Please give credit where it's due.And I welcome comments, suggestions, critiques and goofy caps.LARRYOn Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Edward Obiko <edobie@gmail.com> wrote:
@Steve Couldn't have put it better. I had a friend who was once shot
in the same fashion. Only reason he survived, luckily, was that he
corroborated with the cops story that he was a victim of a stray
bullet, that being since too would have witnessed
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On 1/21/11, Steve Muchai <smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Odhiambo Washington
> <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Liwindi,
>>
>> There is already in place laws to deal with misuse of firearms by officers
>> of the disciplined forces. Within these setups, there are very strict ways
>> for accounting for any weapons used (read bullets), and internal processes
>> are there to determine if such use is legal.
>
> Wash,
>
> Then the rules simply don't work.
>
> 9 Dec 2009: my cousin Martin is jacked by thugs, who then abandon him
> and jack a couple. They take his car keys. Neighbours who respond to
> the alarm, and some two APs, determine he's not one of the thugs when
> they search him and his car. A few minutes later, regulars come and
> shoot him four times at point-blank range. On 11th Dec I identify his
> body at City Morgue, and when we inquire further, the coverup story is
> that there was a shootout, another story that he had an AK, another
> one that he had a pistol, then another story that he was running away
> (never mind all the entry wounds are up front, and there were
> eyewitnesses) etc....
>
> October 2010: Nganga Kariuki and his sister are carjacked at gunpoint.
> They're cornered by cops, the thugs bolt, but the cops still spray the
> car with bullets and kill the 23-year old and injure his sister.
>
> November 2010: Rachel Nduta (a friend and Family Bank employee) is
> attacked by thugs who abandon her car and bundle her into the one
> they've already jacked. They're cornered, she identifies herself and
> pleads to be spared, but the cops shoot her over 10 times point blank.
> They also do the same to the owner of the car she was in.
>
> These are all people I knew personally, dead at the hands of police,
> within one year. In all these cases, they were innocent, and had the
> cops arrested them and verified their story, they'd be alive today.
> I'm not trying to exonerate the guys who were killed, but all I'm
> trying to say here is that whenever you read in the news that some
> "notorious elements" were shot dead "after engaging my boys in a
> shootout", take it with a pinch of salt.
>
> BR
> S
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