Media should guard against swirling temptations

Ezekiel Mutua, the chief executive officer of the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB), is not one who is ever afraid or deterred by anything or anyone when he decides to push for what he believes to be right. He has in several instances taken on the high and mighty in pursuit of safeguarding values and ethics, and almost always won. But, in a recent Facebook post, Dr Mutua sounded like that of a defeated man – a helpless dejected man drowning in the muck of society, as portrayed by the media. His sense of dejection appears to have been stirred by the television news he had watched the previous night. On that particular night, Ezekiel observed that almost all the top news items in one of the TV channels were about murder, rape, negative politics and prostitution.