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Though constitutionally guaranteed, it seems the right to information is only assured when purveyors of information do not rub the Government the wrong way. For one week now, some television stations have been shut by the Government. To ‘rub someone the wrong way’ is an idiomatic expression that means to annoy someone.
Television stations owned by the main media houses in Kenya - Standard Group, Royal Media, and Nation Media Group - were unceremoniously yanked off air for beaming live images from Uhuru Park on January 30, 2018, against the Government's directive not to do so. To those who call the shots, that was unacceptable and action had to be taken.
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