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Kenyan Newspapers are LOUSY!
Dod
#11 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:34:45 PM
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Wa_ithaka wrote:
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


Hata kama ilikuja na meli, there are basic standards that readers expect.
The newspapers these days are full of grammatical mistakes, tautology etc.
The rich have money working for them; the poor and the middle class are going to work for money.
Jus Blazin
#12 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:39:42 PM
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@VVS, I second you on that. There's a lot of crap and crap and when there's no crap there's more crap.

I think the focus of all these journalists/editors is to fill up the newspaper pages, maybe for advertising sake. Another reason could be they are paid for the number of words their articles have. Reminds me of sometime we used to do research in some slums way back. It reached a point guys started filling the questionnaires themselves instead of interviewing the dwellers. All this because we were being paid per questionnaire.
Luck is when Preparation meets Opportunity. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Agra
#13 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:03:37 PM
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The papal story is really disheartening since we had a argument with my colleague on availability of PayPal in Kenya banks. Such mistakes are just criminal.
It's easy for investors to get emotional and prejudiced when trading, but computers don't
bwenyenye
#14 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:13:39 PM
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I stopped buying papers when,once, the Nation had a headline of something I really wanted to know. So I buy it and guess what, they give a small intro then say the story will be the next day!!!! My long term love affair with the paper ended pap! Now I am content reading the headlines from the vendor on the highway... Anyway, if you watch Kenyan news channels, listen to radio and read the paper, you realise that there is only one editor who writes everything in Kenya who leaves you more depressed than before. I prefer listening to news on radio, though. It is over in 5 minutes flat and you move on to music.
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alma
#15 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:32:23 PM
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Let me tell you at the risk of never showing up in these newspaper features. I call "journalist" for lunch and talk to them about Paypal sorry pesapal...Give him something small and I'm good to go. Anything I say is the gospel truth.
Jose: If I make it through this thug life, I'll see you one day. The Lord is the only way to stop the hurt.
Wendz
#16 Posted : Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:38:35 PM
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heheheheee.. you havent seen a paper from Zambia, Zimbabwe or Malawi.... you'd cry... And their journalists(well, the ones i met in Zambia) giggling at the back of the hall when the VP is talking....

But its sad where we are headed..... may be in some few years, we shall be giving the above a run for their 'class'!
Apple Bees
#17 Posted : Friday, January 21, 2011 1:48:38 PM
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I thought I was the only one who complains about mediocrity in the newspapers, especially The Standard. 'Wrong' facts, poor grammar (including spelling mistakes as well as confusing words e.g sell for sale). My list would go on and on. But I know one thing; the people they hire to write scored very low marks in K.C.S.E English!
milken
#18 Posted : Friday, January 21, 2011 3:10:00 PM
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Just confimed that The Standard website has been hacked. And these are the same guys who were making noise when the police site was brought down. By the way even that one is not up yet
Itari muting'oe ihuragwo ngi ni Ngai
RVP
#19 Posted : Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:43:34 PM
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Another amusing gaffe.

“We would have liked to see an aero float flying into Nairobi and Kenya Airways fly to Moscow but the necessary agreements have not been signed” Ms Orlova said.

The journalist here probably assumed aero float is some kind of sophisticated aircraft from Russian aerospace gurus. Ms Orlova was in fact referring to Aeroflot, Russia's largest airline.

http://www.capitalfm.co....ights-to-Kenya-5413.html
Jus Blazin
#20 Posted : Monday, February 07, 2011 6:53:31 PM
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Do these people have editors working for them? Ama the've been engrossed in the valentine spirit?

Check Standard Online edition. Look at the topic. Then as you read on, there is a clear disconnect from the topic as early as the 3rd paragraph onwards.
http://www.standardmedia...000028466&cid=4&
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