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.

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.

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.

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!

@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

@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.

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.

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'!

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

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&