How then shall our media be redeemed?
By OKONG’O
Am I imagining it or is Kenyan media slowly, yet surely, guiding the youth towards a liberal and destructive lifestyle?
One just has to open the Standard on Friday or Nation’s Saturday Magazine and come across signs that our Editors seem to have let loose their passions onto the pages.
Pictures of drunken so-called ‘celebs’ half-naked or simply carvoting. Stories that glorify wife-swapping, prostitution (to save marriages), drinking etc.
Sometimes I feel really sick being a journalist.
But then I remember that jobs come from God, not men. It is up to us to try and influence the stories that make it to TV and newspapers.
As Christians this is extremely challenging, but remember NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD.
What can we do? What are the first baby steps we can take?
I do know that the Christian Church is one of the the biggest consumers of newspapers.
How can this be used to make top editors understand the need to respect family values?
We live in a world without borders thanks to the Internet and MTv. This is good and bad.
Now more than ever we cannot leave the world to teach our children the right way.
We have to show it to them and the first step, even for those of us who are not married, is by trying to make a difference at our places of work.
Any ideas out there?
Karibuni!
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