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Why the media is reckoning with a trust-deficient Kenya

IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati (centre) with AU election observers at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi on August 14, 2022. [David Gichuru, Standard]

"Media is failing the country," screamed online pundits and the Chattering Classes. "Leave Githeri Media alone," they said.

Why media couldn't continue tallying the presidential results from the IEBC portal and even call the election was puzzling and frustrating to many (and understandable for media people). The image out there is that media started on a journey not knowing where it would end, a grave indictment of a noble profession.

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