Is Kenyan media an excitable lot?

Media outrage that followed amendments to laws on the appointment of the Chief Justice and the leadership of the police service may have persuaded a few people to conclude someone was about to trample on the Constitution and got me thinking how Kenyan media might have reported some of the most dramatic events of the past few months.

Reporting on US President Barack Obama's decision to tighten gun control in order to rein in runaway crime, Kenyan newspapers might have attacked him for violating the Seventh Amendment and 'undermining the American way of life'. Never mind the fact that gun deaths far outstrip terrorism deaths.