THE RESTRICTIONS OF HARMONY NEWS-CASTING MEDIA REPORTAGE OF KENYA'S 2017 GENERAL RACES

Abstract

In 2008, Kenya floated near the precarious edge of a conflict emerging from the political savagery that followed the overall decisions. In reportage similar to that of the notorious Rwandan annihilation of 1994, the Kenyan media pitched the country's different ethnoreligious bunches against one another. The outcome was a wanton loss of lives and property, as well as an exceptionally unstable socio-political environment. By 2013 when the nation was going to direct another overall political decision, fear ran high among the general population. Nonetheless, in seemingly a sharp deviation from what had occurred in 2008, media reportage of the political decision was more struggle delicate. Despite the fact that there were pockets of inconsistencies, the 2013 political decision recorded less viciousness and the media was commended as a critical justification for that. In the 2017 political race, the media was indeed at the focal point of public talk, this time blamed for forfeiting a vote based system in the reason for harmony. Public spectators blamed the media for making light of or potentially underreporting inconsistencies and by and large political decision fixing inspired by a paranoid fear of a potential episode of savagery. The contention by numerous writers and media professionals was that the media rehearsed harmony reporting. By investigating chosen articles from Kenya's traditional press, this article inspects harmony news coverage in its numerous intricacies and logical elements, to explain the meager line between harmony reporting and backing.