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Someone teach Media Council news values

The Media Council of Kenya (MCK) has made some serious allegations against the Kenyan media. MCK alleges an emerging trend where media coverage “displays a betrayal of public interest and violation of the Code of Conduct for the Practice of Journalism”.

Further, it claims to have established “a worrying trend of screaming headlines without corresponding content alongside multiple repetition of headlines over a short period of time”.

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