What annoys me much about journalists is that they present things they
think the audience want to listen to or watch - they assume something
is worth repeating a thousand times if they themselves are obsessed
with it. A different angle to this but somehow this 'culture' is also
creeping in on service providers in this case Internet & mobile. Is it
asking too much if a market survey is done to 'check' what is
currently trending before airing what 'we' think is currently
trending? or I might be wrong with this and if I am, then I'll
continue watching my episodes of Californication rather than regular
TV.

./Ok3ch

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Martin G. Kamau <gachunga@gmail.com> wrote:
> Amen!
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:32 PM, David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd
> <kianiadee@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have just watched Money Matters hosted by Larry and it's amazing how
>> a whole program was featuring Safaricom. For starters I have never
>> understood the media's obsession with Michael Joseph and the unending
>> romance follows him post "retirement" (sic).
>>
>> I have worked in a media's business desk and I know that there are
>> plenty of business stories but the journalists/reporters don't want to
>> go after difficult stories which is very inexplicable.
>>
>> Cmon dude we can do better than this. We need much less Safaricom
>> stories in our faces.
>>
>>
>> Kiania
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Larry Madowo <larrymads@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Good people,
>> > As a tech journalist myself at NMG, I must say I read the piece with
>> > shock.
>> > I am not sure if it was a mistake in sub-editing because the piece's
>> > writer
>> > Mark Okuttah knows his tech quite well. All the same, despite the
>> > similarities in the name, it is unacceptable to make a mistake like
>> > that. It
>> > is just a major faux pas.
>> > At least the online version has been cleared of all the confusions but
>> > the
>> > print version is immortalized for all history; mistakes and all. I must
>> > however take great exception to Peter's derogatory statement about tech
>> > writers at NMG because they are arguably some of the best in the
>> > business,
>> > and some are even on this list.
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Peter Osotsi <peter.osotsi@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> When I grow up I want to be a tech writer at NMG!
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Now that is a  true mix up, heck, they would have edited that to
>> >>> become
>> >>> Paypal too
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