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Kenyan Newspapers are LOUSY!
VituVingiSana
#1 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:58:02 AM
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In today's Business Daily [Print & Online Edition] they discuss a PesaPal product/service but the headline says PayPal.

I can't but cringe about basic spelling errors in our newspapers especially The Standard [definitely not the standard] not that Daily Nation is much better!

I used to buy The Business Daily but I got fed up of the misinformation and/or poor research.

What say you?

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Pesapal not Paypal

Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett
whynow
#2 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:23:02 AM
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Last week a reporter had the audacity to write that the southern bypass is meant to ease traffic at JKIA while we know that it is meant to divert traffic from entering the City Centre.
Jamani
#3 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:28:12 AM
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They have their concentration on politics not economy,look at the news on tele siasa day in day out. Business news is a joke,no research they just echo what the CEOs say. Unlike what they do on political news.
mozenrat
#4 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:35:41 AM
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Check out the story on the three suspects shot on Lang'ata road as reported by the Standard.. Yaani, they went to the Police asked them what happened and quoted them verbatim "exchanged fire with my mboys"

They should be dying of embarassment considering the Nation frontpage..

No investigative journalism at all.. and we wonder why the Kiriinya confessions died with him.

Not that the editors at Nation are doing any better, I've noticed spelling mistakes in nearly every edition sold last year and this year.
VituVingiSana
#5 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:00:44 PM
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With spell check FREE on every computer... cheap dictionaries... how can these guys make such basic errors???
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett
pessa
#6 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:12:38 PM
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in todays Nation there is a guy who is saying that a plot in syokimau goes for 250,000..These guys need to research on their content. No one can sell you a plot in syokimau for that price.
Wa_ithaka
#7 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:15:05 PM
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I wonder how well a muzungu would do if he/she was writing a Swahili/Kiuk/Luo newspaper.

Lets its give the guys a break. Lugha ilikuja na meli. You know what the journalist meant after all.

Another Kenyan just whining
The Governor of Nyeri - 2017
VituVingiSana
#8 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:17:24 PM
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My parents encouraged me to read the newspapers [Standard & Nation not the kanu crapsheet] but I do not think I would want my kids reading today's newspapers. The Standard has the creepiest/salacious stories written by journalists who flunked their English exams!
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett
selah
#9 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:35:08 PM
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The pesapal-paypal error is even replicated in PM Live ticker.....this is really bad.
'......to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.' Colossians 2:2-3
Spend.thrift
#10 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 2:42:07 PM
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@VVS,

Journalistic standards are falling world wide. If its not paying people to pose, its poor editorial or irresponsible editors.

I still curse the day KTN TV showed 3 women being sexually abused by beach boys molested at the Coast. The footage was very clear bith the panic stricken women fully identifiable.

Spelling mistakes are usual
poorly researched articles
Sensational reporting (Just watch Njoroge Mwaura any day)

Too many problems.

One day I sat down with some reporters who had come to cover an event I was organising. A cursory look at the young boys and girl was enough warning for me not to expect anything useful from the news that evening or neswpaper the next day. Sadly, they have acess to so many people at once
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