The problem here is proprietor control/interference in the daily running of the media house, once the guy who owns the stations starts to control the form of and delivery of news content, the audience (us) suffer.  This is not specific to The Standard Group only though they seem to be the ones suffering from it a lot.


V


On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Edward Obiko <edobie@gmail.com> wrote:
I, in particular take issue with their lop-sided 'angles' when
reporting a story. I hated the way they made the Demolition story
about The Standard Group being a target and about how much (3bn) was
spent building their HQ, whereas the Sameer Park was built for an
excess of 25bn, which they only gave a passing mention.
It is high time we took the media (especially this media house) to
task about over-dosing us with their opinionated reports. Sort of
reminded me of the "Media" Bill days when all that was in the news was
how 'Draconian' the Information Act was with respect to the fourth
estate...

What were their comment/feed-back e-mails again? Perhaps we ought to
CC: all these threads

On 1/21/11, David Mugo <raidarmax@gmail.com> wrote:
> Politics or no politics, this is not the first time this has happened and I
> think our media houses need to take lessons somewhere...
>
> David.
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:03 PM, liwindi joshua <liwindi81@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And I dint Like the East African standard Headline, "ODM
>> Ministers.........................................on demolition", Frankly
>> the only ministries concerned were Lands and roads, did they have to
>> incite
>> us by adding the parties where the ministers belong
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Ruth Were <nafuna@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I really dont like the set for the 9pm news
>>> Too fake!!
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The problem with Standard is been behind competition, then dropping
>>>> their
>>>> Standards to defend why they build AFTER the government had announced
>>>> plans
>>>> for repossession.
>>>>
>>>> As for their website, Google frequently lists it as sitting on a hackers
>>>> reserve, they share ranks with the AP website for being frequent
>>>> targets,
>>>> yet they do nothing about it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Skunkworks mailing list
>>>> Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>>>> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
>>>> ------------
>>>> Skunkworks Rules
>>>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94
>>>> ------------
>>>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Skunkworks mailing list
>>> Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>>> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
>>> ------------
>>> Skunkworks Rules
>>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94
>>> ------------
>>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke
>>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Skunkworks mailing list
>> Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
>> ------------
>> Skunkworks Rules
>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94
>> ------------
>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke
>>
>
>
>
> --
> -------------
> David Mugo,
> ICT & E-Commerce Consultant,
> http://majibu.com
> Twitter: @raidarmax
>


--
OO

Omingo Obiko
_______________________________________________
Skunkworks mailing list
Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
------------
Skunkworks Rules
http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94
------------
Other services @ http://my.co.ke



--
Victor Ngeny

Mobile   +254713957356
GTalk:    victormaritim          Twitter:   @ngeny
Yahoo:   vikngne                  Skype:   victor.ngeny