The American press has finally started to address the role of CNN in the controversial Niger Delta affair, involving Kenyan journalist Jeff Koinange.
For months, angry Nigerians have been "shouting themselves hoarse" over the net and other mediums trying to attract world attention to an incident they say they found very offensive. In the incident Koinange and CNN were accused by the Nigrians of paying gunmen to stage a show for a story on the Niger Delta resistance.
In the first major media story in America to address this angle, The New York Post has published what appears to be evidence from the Marianne Brinner emails which seems to suggest that Koinange's employers may have been aware of pay offs to militiamen in the Niger Delta despite official denials by the news organization.
The New York Post quotes from the controversial emails where Jeff wrote in part;
"Of course I had to pay certain people to get the story. But everything was done in agreement with CNN and in accordance with their usual standards. But you do not get such a story without bribing . . . You have to have financial resources. But at the end, it was worth it. CNN has its story and I have my 'fame.'
What makes the whole incident suspicious was the fact that shortly after this incident CNN carried a very positive news item on the Niogerian elections that analysts saw as an effort to appease the Nigerians.
Read the New York Post story.
This is a matter of semantics. Jeff did not pay to have the story staged. He paid to have access to the MEND people so he could have the exclusive story.
ReplyDeleteSome ghosts never vanish but as predictable as the sun setting in the west they reappear sooner than you expected. The dynamics of truth has it that unless it is told, its variations emerge only for it to triumph eventually. But as for this story we seem not there yet. Truly 'tragedy' never come singly but in pairs even flogging the already dead. Poor JK he should have known better than bare his heart on the keyboard.
ReplyDeleteChris you mustnever quote NY post as it amounts to 'brain washing'. Meanwhile whoever belitted your blog for being cheap must do the honourable thing by eating all his words without fear of constipation. Blogs have become quotable authorities and ole wao walibaki nyuma.
1. WHY DIDN'T SHE REPORT THE 'GROSS' VIOLATION TO THE POLICE?
ReplyDeleteFor all we know the hurts she attained during sex (she apparently went to a Dr. instead) might have simply been because she's Old and he is a robust African man! - not because she didn't agree to the act.
2. She was NOT intoxicated or drugged in anyway during the act and could therefore have CALLED for help. It was a hotel in London not a hut in the middle of nowhere.
3. Now this woman has no qualms posting on her blog details about Jeff's wife; when shes giving birth, her religion, her relation with her in-laws etc etc.
So how has his pregnant wife wronged Jeff's lover for her to publish the wife's private life like this?
Was the wife also in the room as the old woman was being "raped" or something?
4. There is no questions or doubts about whether Jeff had an affair with her so posting the mails - even lurid ones - to "prove" the already obvious is futile and nothing more than hurting the wife, children and Family.
5. Did she get any money from oil interests to discredit the story of the very legitimate concerns of the Niger delta people?
P/s Seems that shes indeed getting the fame she planned for as american and other media pick up the story.
"What goes around comes around"
You can't change the course of a determeined river. Even the mainstreat Kenyan media are on it. we don't need to be apologitic on anything. Mwende of Sunday Nation summed it all:
ReplyDelete"So where did Koinange go wrong? “Don’t put anything in emails that you wouldn’t want the whole world to read,” says Keith Crosley of Forrester Consulting for Proofpoint Inc, which makes anti-spam and email monitoring tools for companies. It is a difficult ideal to live up to, he says, but, absent that, workers should at least abide by their company’s policy for acceptable email use.
In satisfying his salacious appetite for lascivious emails and online romps, Koinange indisputably violated CNN’s policy for such correspondence."
Need I say more? I bet not lest I spoil the broth. Let the truth run its course.
Chris once replied someone here that the San Fransisco Newspapers is 'brain wash'. Now, he is quoting New York Times. It is not brainwash. Interesting! I wish I have the name of the bloke Chris replied. IT was just in the same week that news about the same issue was settled with the sacking of Jeff. Kuchimbana!
ReplyDeleteThere was once a Greek dude called Daedalus who built wings for himself and his son (Icarus). They were held together by feathers and wax. Deadalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, as it would melt his wings, not too close to the sea, as it would dampen them and make it hard to fly. However after flying from Crete the nut of a son grew exhilarated by the thrill of flying and became careless. Flying too close to the sun, the wax holding together his wings melted from the heat and he fell to his death, drowning in the sea.
ReplyDeleteNow JK should have known better and avoided that scorching sun of a maraya. No sympathy at all on this one, JK amejikaranga na mafuta yake!!
Hey Anon you missed the plot dude with that tired line of brain wash. You have swalowed Chris' sarcasm whole. And even before rushing to the keyboard you should have realized that Taabu already had the words brain wash in quotes. Smell the coffee and eat the words, no offense. For the necords NY Post and NYT are not one and the same thing. Great weekend people.
ReplyDeleteYup correct. NY Post is a TABLOID.
ReplyDeleteAnother white pussy has brought the black man down. Are we ever going to learn!!
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