Media at cross-roads: Reflections on the Kenyan news and the coverage of the 2007 political crisis

Ogola, G. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4513-4550 (2009) Media at cross-roads: Reflections on the Kenyan news and the coverage of the 2007 political crisis. Africa Insight, 39 (1). pp. 58-71. ISSN 0256-2804

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Abstract

The coverage of the 2007 post-election violence by Kenya’s news media cannot be disaggregated from the institutional defi ciencies of the Kenyan state. This article argues that coverage of the crisis revealed a media at a cross-roads; one embedded in the state’s institutional failures yet expected to stand apart from them. The article further argues that local coverage of the confl ict was in fact revealing of a separate ‘crisis’ simultaneously facing the Kenyan news media. A combination of factors ranging from the media’s internal structural weaknesses to a weak national regulatory media regime, poor policy and legal frameworks affected the coverage.


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