check this out ... it was on citizen news last nite totally unbelievable. Screenshot provided ReelForge Media Monitoring by (http://www.reelforge.com/reelforge/index.php) On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:02 AM, David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd <kianiadee@gmail.com> wrote:
From experience I know people are incentivized to make prominent particular stories and I remember one time we were offered 10k to highlight the speech of a particular bank chairman and when we got back to the newsroom the Editor in Chief took over and "cut" the news story himself, according to spec.
The clamour for eyeballs and favourable at that is lucrative and this is enhanced by freebies from exclusive invitation to company launches, merchandise, to treats, special discounts etc. Do an informal survey over the weekend find out how many time particular words such as Safaricom are mentioned in news items across all media.
I hope that Larry et al are above this, being in the seating rooms of so many comes with it's browning points.
Kiania D.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:46 AM, <sospeter@elimu.co.ke> wrote:
Yeah,
Do these journalists get paid heavy commissions to cover the obvious people or what.
Cover companies like Elimu. It is an IT company Larry if you did not know.
Skunkers please suggest companies that are making a difference to journalists so they can have work to do this year. OK?
Good Friday.
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 _______________________________________________ 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
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