Which media is your most reliable source of breaking news?
If you really think about it, it is not your favorite TV station or radio station. Not even Kumekucha (LOL).
It is in fact your humble cell phone. I’ve received very important breaking news items on my cell phone on numerous occasions and it never matters where in the world I am, as long as people know my mobile number, they will usually send me text messages.
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Also published today
Jeff Koinange "love letters" with date rape victim published on the net
Today we have two quips of the day from a man I believe understands media and the changes happening more than anybody else in the world
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."
Rupert Murdoch (owner of The Sun, Times of London, Sky TV, Fox and a host of other media houses worldwide. Has recently been focusing on the Internet as the next media frontier.)
All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
Rupert Murdoch (owner of The Sun, Times of London, Sky TV, Fox and a host of other media houses worldwide. Has recently been focusing on the Internet as the next media frontier.)
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This illustrates how media has changed and how it continues to change too rapidly for anybody to understand exactly which direction we are headed.
That is why what happened in parliament yesterday defies logic.
One would have thought that with the extremely busy nature of this last session of parliament there would be other more urgent issues to discuss than a new media bill. Yesterday a Media Bill was tabled by Communications Minister Mutahi Kagwe and sailed through the first reading.
Interestingly as we have said here below, anybody seeking to “control” the media at this point in time is blind and extremely ignorant of what is going on. Cell phones for instance are an emerging media that helps shape public opinion with forwarded messages and so on. The Internet may have limited reach to the ordinary Kenyan but we are now seeing email messages being passed on via cell phones.
In fact experts agree that technology is changing media too fast for any legislation to keep up.
What the MPs should be doing now is getting to the bottom of the Anglo Leasing scandal (which was revealed by the media) and explaining to Kenyans why it is that the corrupt continue to be promoted to new appointments in government and as we head ofr the lections, people who are known to have enriched themselves from public coffers are being heartily praised by the President (is it because they are expected to fund the election campaigns for the government?).
Little known secrets about the Safaricom cash machine
Wife cuts off husband's penis flashes it down the toilet.
The surprising real reason why more and more Kenyans are having steamy extra-marital affairs
Woman Murders Her Best Friend To Steal Her Husband As Science Proves That It Is Deadly For Women To Have Casual Sex
How Kenyans can now easily start a lucrative Internet business from any remote part of Kenya for only Kshs 100/-
The gvt's efforts at trying to muzzle the press will fall flat on their face. One thing that this administration has failed to realise is that you never ever win any war against the press. Moreso in country like Kenya where the citizens have suddenly become informed. You risk being sidelined. My urge to the press is to try and protect your turf by blacking out those proponents of the said bill. Don't cover them and their associates for two months. They will toe the line. Its time the press came out for bare knuckles war against these jerks. If diplomacy fails, roll up your sleeves and get the fists ready for war!
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