The reaction to my first article in a newspaper- Rainbow excitement ignores real issues- October 27, 2002) was overwhelmingly critical and I thought too, unfair.
“How you could allow such bilge into your newspaper is frightening. It was a tragic example of how not to…” fired one reader. My writing was not mediocre or lacked serious thought. Not at all. “You invite criticism and people like it when they can pin you down and they have all the right,” said Wachira Waruru, the then Editor.