There are Kenyan stories that have sold newspapers, although we won’t say like hot cakes. When the Daily Nation covered the murder of populist politician JM Kariuki with a story that he was in Zambia, sales and confusion went through the roof.
The body of JM, the only legislator to ever pass a private member’s Bill in 1968, was all along at the City Mortuary when Daily Nation Editor-in Chief George Githii was penning a misleading headline that is now a classic case study of media ethics gone awry at the School of Journalism.