Threats will not deflect media from their mission

Journalists run for their lives during the AZIMIO high cost of living demonstrations in Mathare North, Nairobi on March 30, 2023. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Government should stop its obsession with trying to muzzle, if not destroy, the media. It has become a fad for government officials to threaten the media. The process has been building for the last 10 years.

The formation of the Government Advertising Agency was in itself done in bad faith with the aim of stifling media houses by starving them of government advertising. Whereas the government is a major advertiser, it is not the sole one. For majority media houses, it contributes less than 10 per cent of their advertising revenue.