I consider myself quite informed on matters affecting Kenya ingawa I have not lived there for two decades. I read Kenyan dailies and engage fellow citizens in a variety of online fora and talk on the phone with folks in Kenya just about every day. However, until today, I had never heard of - or seen - the NTV newsman Larry Midiwo. After MPig Alex Keters outrageous weekend debacle where he starred in his own made-for-YouTube video of a drunk law maker drunk with power breaking the laws he made hit social media, the legislator headed to NTV studios to do some serious damage control as his political enemies started breathing on his neck baying for his blood. At the studios, he was interviewed by one Larry Madowo. Thats how I got to hear of, and see the aforementioned newsman for the first time in my life. I had always thought I was informed about my motherland, but I guess not so quite. I am not a journalist but I am an avid consumer of news: both print and electronic. However in my many years of watching TV interviews, I have never seen a TV news host exhibit such unprofessionalism on the hottest story in the whole nation. Was this guy ever trained...and if so where/when was this? Four minutes into the interview, I was ready to quit watching because Mr. Madowo was actively trying to inject himself into the narrative. His abbrasive style was unnecessarily combative and he was playing prosecutor and judge simultaneously instead of assuming the neutral role of a referee. I have near zero respect for most of our MPigs including Keter and his Singh-along side kick-fellow legislator. Most Kenyans with internet access had already seen the video of the duo flexing their Jubilee muscles on junior workers with empty threats and plastic bravado and had, by the time of the interview, made up their minds about the conduct of these two embarrassing miscreants of legislators. However, it is not the role of the host journalists to wear their biases on their sleeves - and lips - in such an amateur manner. That NTV has this fella as one of their top interviewers in their line-up is testament to the dearth of objective, fair, and professional TV journalism in our country. Larry Madowo as a gate-keeper of the Fourth Estate is in need of serious re-training...if he was ever trained at all in the first place. Kenyans deserve better.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:23:42 +0000
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