Tuesday, 4 September 2012

HATE SPEECH

The government is working on through Ministry of information is work in law which will bar media house from   owning more than to station.
Ones the law is passed no media house will be allowed to own  both radio station, newspapers and  TV station as it is currently.
Officer from the Ministry Mary Ombora told  monthly Kenya Media Roundtables that there is   a need for media house to be controlled on having  both TV station radio and newspapers
Majority of station in the Country are owned by politicians and  powerful personality who are using it for there personal gain which included   picking of journalist of  there choice.
The roundtable whose topic was media and hate speech was told that both media council and ministry is not ready to control both journalist and media houses on the hate speech ahead of the forthcoming general election
Those who also speak included Mutegi Njau from Royal Media Service Wanjiku Mbugua among others from media Industry which is on  spot over hate speech.
 Journalist  where accused of  spreading hate  speech during political rallies hosted by politicians but instead told to ignore politicians with hidden agenda
 The issues of social media was also discussed. dirty language and gander   among others issues affecting the Country as  we head to general election.
Comedians who controls  most of FM station  were accused of using dirty languages and bring personal matters to the station which is unprofessional
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