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NTV Kenya studio gallery. The new media darlings are philanthropists, and landlords who have chosen to forgo rent money in order to cushion their tenants. We are learning about use of technology in education. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NMG
The paper today has no news,” the old fellow sitting next to me pronounced gloomily. This was a few years ago in a tea shop deep in the village. I had asked to read the newspaper sticking out of the pocket of his frayed jacket.
Of course the paper had plenty of news. What the grizzled man meant was that the paper had no political news. Tragically, his idea that news is politics is representative of the views of millions of others, and is the result of media practice in Kenya since independence.
