TRUTH OUTS KENYA

Currently there are a lot of people who have and are being arrested for sharing things on social media and when they are arrested the first excuse they give is that the message did not originate from them. In media law there is a topic on defamation which covers both libel and slander. Many people are committing libel online unaware /PHOTO/juntariman.files.wordpress.com  Now one thing stands out very clearly and which most people do not know. Any person who spreads, shares a message or picture or caricature etc that makes the public question a person’s, reputation separately meets the requirements  of committing defamation and will be charged separately from the originator. There is a hashtag that is trending on Twitter today, Hastags are powerful but kindly only retweet or tweet when you know what you are doing. When someone shares a picture or statement or comment, please think before you regret. Anyone who shares, retweets, reposts, resnaps and all the sha...

Well if there is a weakness in me it is that I cannot pretend to like a person when the sight of them drives me crazy but one thing that I have also learnt is that being ignorant of who the other person is can lead to wrong assumptions. Let me say it then, I don’t like Larry Madowo and I do not watch his show nor read his column or listen to his radio show. Larry Madowo; Alot of Kenyans have reacted to his claims about bloggers/PHOTO/NAIROBI WIRE.COM Most people will say that this feeling sprouts as a result of jealousy but no, am not jealous because of his “ success” am just worried about the assumptions he makes and how it is getting to his head. Being a trained journalist, from Egerton University, I was trained that the values of news are the 5WH who, what, when, why, where and how. Another thing is that the journalist is not supposed to be part of the news. Also in this era of social media, journalists are tweeting and blogging but they share ideas and knowledge. The...