Kiambaa & missing Kale youth MEDIA'S PEV NARRATIVE

job, that is a very moving piece. It is very sad that the true victims of the PEV have been given a total blackout by those who control the media houses. It is time we got to see the gravity of what really happened, and it is incumbent on the media to show what it is that the ICC is on about. To get justice for such innocent victims. I shed a tear when I saw the photo of the lady's child who was burnt to death in the church, then I remembered Ruto's interview on Citizen TV when he claimed his child was affected by the ICC debate, and then I go to wonder, is Ruto's child more important than the child who died in the mother's hands at the church? Does he know how it feels to lose a child due to someone's greedy ambitions and evil schemes? This makes me sick to the bone, and it makes me with that we could fast track the ICC process, and we ALL get to hear the evidence, and then we see how bad the O-6 really are for this country. The day of judgement is nigh, and behold, justice shall be served.

The question is, how do we change the narrative?

I must say, round one - pre Hague has been dominated by issues other that IDPs, victims rights/justice, and survivors plight.

jomo jnr and ruto have cynically, forcefully and perhaps masterfully established and imposed on us, their own narrative - their supposed innocence, as the main thrust of the news cycles the last few weeks.

Its been nothing but them, their political aspirations, their supposed crucifixion by the Rt Hon Prime Minister. Basically its been a non-stop propaganda offensive aimed at belittling the person of The Right Hon Prime Minister, of abusing him, besmirching his name, and affixing blame, however irrational, on him.

Its been about their purported innocence.

Its time to hit back folks!

Job
I actually took time to watch and listen to this interview. This means a lot because I am no fan of Uhuru. You are right that giving him the forum on a media outlet with a wide reach such a Citizen, arguably amplifies the impression of the "suspects as the victims" in the whole saga.

Having said that, it is worth noting (and commending Juli) for asking a few poignant questions of Uhuru none of which he answers directly. It is particularly telling that he cannot specificity the issues they have been talking about when pressed by Julie.

Considering the image he has cut for himself, being a Kenyatta and this being a Royal media outlet, I think Julie did fine and Uhuru comes out as some daft, angry person unsure of his vision and deep in the stupor of self importance_notice how he feels gratified by claiming that the rallies have confirmed that he has the support of Kenyans.

I sympathize with Julie as a representative of a profession that is supposed to be probing in such circumstances. One can see from her discomfiture that she was not just asking an interviewee questions, she was also confronting the "might" of Muthamaki and so self imposed the limits of how much follow up and probing she could successfully pursue.

I begin thus because I believe that even with the ten minutes presented here, one can see how easy it would be to break through the facade that the Ocampo six (Uhuru-Ruito) and PNU have built in the recent past by creating a bogeyman out of the PM. It is a survival strategy aimed at creating the false reality of invincibility--of regnant power. False because the hereditary prince is wounded, the stolen resources(economic) are under surveillance in readiness for seizure should ICC go through, the time tested ignominy of manipulating legislature and judiciary nipped in the bud etc.

I could be way over my head but every utterance, disposition, iteration (and the motive behind these) by PNU/Uhuru Ruto, points to a slow self destruction of what should otherwise be a formidable dominant force.

The ICC should be the accelerate of this self-destruction rather than the only force driving it. What do the rest of Kenyans have to do and can they do it without being actively and effectively mobilized?

The power that Uhuru/Michuki/Kibaki and co have been consolidating is facing serious internal tensions and contradictions which are easy to bring out going by Uhuru's performance in this video. All those MPs who gathered at Gatundu today did so because of twin issues; a flawed belief in the invincibility of what appears to be Uhuru-Ruto guilt driven and status-quo favored outfit; and a fear of the kind of accountability the PM's leadership promises--which accountability they cannot survive, having cut their political teeth on questionable moral and ethical practices.

What is perhaps needed more than anything is a counter effect to the charade of a monolithic unified PNU and a reversal of the false positions upon which the current PNU lead campaign is based. It may be a while before the contributory value of the new constitution is felt in this.

This is why it begs a lot what ODM as a counter-force can do in addition to what it is doing already. A clear need for an equally alert and on the toe, informed and youthful voice, persistent in the media especially the internet to keep alive specific messages intended to demonstrate just how dissociated Uhuru and Co. are from the needs of a just and representative Kenya.

Shifta
you are spot on, in respect of the thing that triggered Uhuru's slip into the petulance and an almost atavistic incoherence we see. He rested easy knowing and believing in the power of the executive (exercised by his dad and Moi without question) to bail him out of the current predicament. little did he know that there are Kenyans out there ready to stand for the inculcation of just practices and who are enamored by the new constitution. This is truly what pissed Uhuru off.

I watched Uhuru the bully interview and i was just wondering what was he chewing?
the interview portrayed Uhuru as unstable,irrational and hot tempered person, who will be worse than his father if he becomes the president of kenya, he didnt answer any question put on him but only dance on his own tunes, eti Kibaki won the elections based on that the votes were scattered in different parties as if they cannot be added up into one figure.

What is well known (by public) is that the Kenyatta family has bought quite a number of mainstream media outlets - The People and K24 TV - on top of the vernacular radio station Kameme FM. Scribe hirelings like Jeff Koinange, Gaitho, Ngunyi, and Nation's Gitahi are deeply in his pockets - attempting unsuccessfully to rewrite PEV history (to put Mungiki and Uhuru in favourable terms - as the super heros who stopped the terrible Kalenjin militia). Needless to state, most KENYANS don't buy that crap!



Uhuru has tried using his recently acquired radio, TV and newspaper to drum anti-ICC propaganda in an attempt to also change the PEV narrative - from empathy for ACTUAL victims, to sympathy with perpetrators.



This may be gaining traction amongst his Agikuyu subjects (like you), but as national polls show today, majority Kenyans still view him as an ICC suspect who needs to go face trial at the Hague. In addition, majority Kenyans want him to be relieved of his public duties.



So whereas he is using his perpetration of murders at Naivasha, Nakuru and elsewhere to try ascending to State House, others see a cold and misguided attempt to profit from blood-letting of other Kenyans. Blood is dripping from his fingers as he spews his tribal matusi day in day out in incitement rallies. This narrative is yet to be framed to the nation, focus is still on the ICC Pre-Trial. He will soon be answered in bigger rallies, keep an eye hapa!



These are the WELL KNOWN FACTS. Kwahivyo toa those myths you claim are well known? Well known in whose quarters?




Simple! Media not kow-towing to muthamaki Muigai was Kenyatta's propaganda make him angry.


On top, Uhuru is scathing-angry at leaders not bowing down to his attempt to put his cousin and lawyer as Kenya's AG....... He is angry at leaders resisting his spirited attempt to have ICC case deferred for one year,...... he is angry at fellow Gikuyu leaders (Karua, Kenneth, Muite etc) not bowing down to the self-imposed muthamaki,...... he is angry at media able to report whispers about his liquor-over-imbibing and pot-smoking tendencies....he is angry at media portraying him as a perpetrator of PEV....angry at media highlighting his latter day table-banging, epithet-spewing habits....he's angry at amigo Ocampo tightening the Judicial noose around his neck.....angry at UN Security Council for ignoring muthamaki's request.....and of course, this fella is angry at pundits (at JUKWAA and elsewhere) who call him for what he is - a bloody callous murderer of innocent civilians! That surely makes him angry, but who cares? Let him face Justice!?

Needless to state - you obviously don't see the Kenyatta-owned media conglomeration (K24 TV, Kameme FM radio, and The People newspaper) and its common anti-ICC guests in Jeff Koinange's bench show (Ngunyi, Matsanga et al.,)..PLUS thier sympathisers in Gitahi's Nation (like Gaitho) ONE ONE HAND driving a different narrative from OTHER MEDIA.


It is that OTHER MEDIA (including the Standard and Star newspapers) that Uhuru Kenyatta is angry about.


Is there anything hard to comprehend about this simple matter? Absolutely none!


Reread my post for the FACTS and seperate them from unsupported myths and baseless allegations....

Daktari,

hebu wachana na huyu mtu banaa. U are flogging a dead horse so to speak.

If you can't discern basic logic in debate, why even attempt to embarrass yourself. You asked why Uhuru is angry at media. My thesis was simple - Uhuru is only angry at specific media that he isn't able to control (which I referred as 'other media' for the purpose of debate - not in abstract terms). Otherwise, he is kosher with media that his family controls - which is trying to rewrite PEV history and sell a narrative far from reality.




'Mainstream' is not synonymous with 'leading', neither is it 'established' or 'old' . Any media entity that is legally registered by government, accenting to ethical & professional regulation by media council, regular in production, with a reasonably widespread audience that is able to sustain business production consistently, qualifies as mainstream media. It may be contemporary in age, with limited audience, but is still mainstream.


News reported in K24 TV, or regular contemporary shows in K24 TV like "the bench" or "three sides of a coin", are as mainstream as it gets. An editorial or news report in The Star, is as mainstream as it gets. Mainstream is therefore not confined to good old, The Daily Nation and EA Standard newspapers. Neither is it (on the other hand) a blog or tabloid publication that I don't even remember its name!





Absolutely of no relevance to this discussion. Even from Washington DC or other foreign cities (I travel a lot lately), I still watch K24 TV, Citizen TV, KTN, NTV, KBC TV, and read the Standard, Star, Nation, East African, and other mainstream outlets as I wish...


On top, I also venture into non-mainstream sources in blogs, tabloids, social media sites et al., time allowing.





That's quite subjective. I have read specific Uhuru-friendly columns in the Nation, watched Uhuru-pitching shows in Citizen TV, favourable reporting in KBC TV, a very soft (friendly) interview of Uhuru himself in Citizen TV, and such. On the contrary, certain specific columns or shows/ segments in the same media may be harsher.


What is more easy to discern is that the Uhuru family owned media is favourable to his cause. The rest ('other media' for this purpose) is unpredictable and not-absolutely driven by Kenyatta's intended narratives.





Table that evidence of 'widely known' "buying" of Pollsters and cartoonists.


On the contrary, I will argue that the Synovate Pollster is the most biased against Odinga, through advancing what is called push-polling. Their spatial use of periodic polling is also surreptitiously meant to project a trend that Raila is fading or losing traction and widespread support across the country. I've previosuly stated here in JUKWAA that Synovate's long-term objective is to rob Raila's campaign the momentum in perception. Besides, their leading questions serve nothing more than influencing opinion in a certain way.


Those oblivious to these polling tactics will simplistically take an April 2010 Synovate snap poll showing Raila with a wide lead as evidence of Synovate favouring Raila. That is far from the truth. Synovate's deceptive mission lies in projecting trends and trajectories, not snap-shot polling. Along that line, Synovate is right now busy projecting Raila as losing support (compared to last year), just in the same way they are portraying countrywide support for ICC Hague trials as waning. The snap-shot fact that Raila is leading isn't their concern - leading by how much, compared to last year, is their domain. Consume these polls with great caution, and try to research about push-polling!

We must NOT be sent off course by hecklers!!


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It could be some handle from a bored mashadite or bowener or a recycled handle previously banned here

Noway-haha

Because we value divergent views I stopped by to “pep talk” on your cry for relevancy.
Stop seeking self relevancy, individualism is of no relevance here, however if you haven’t realized there is a trait that you harbor that is a kin to bastardizing this esteemed forum, there is juvenility in your posting its something that rarely seem to hide itself in most of your littered posts everywhere, whether they add value is of no argument as they fall short .More than not you sound like a heckler and or someone beholding divergent views for the sake of it.
Perhaps to help you further can you figure out how others who hold such “other” views express themselves, I know they are a few but you sure can learn something called TACT from them that way you will be on your way to expressing your views with class and earning yourself some RELEVANCY if you are yearning for some!