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Journalists can turn the fortunes of the sugar industry

Sugar on display at a Kenyan supermarket. (Photo: Jenipher wachie, Standard)

Domiciled in the lingua of the local media, often in reference to the sugar industry in Kenya, are words like cash-strapped, deathbed, loan-ridden, brink of collapse, corrupt, archaic, sinking, struggling and limping.

While there is some truth to these allegations, they point at an extremely overzealous vanguard that is hell-bent on old and outdated principle of journalism: When a dog bites a man, it is not news but when a man bites a dog, it is news! True.

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