Wanzala 15 OUMA WANZALA -1 Daily Nation (Kenya) April 8, 2015 Wednesday
State ready to hold talks over new media laws lexis
Dr Matiang'i yesterday insisted that the Jubilee administration supports and believed in the freedom of the media. He said the government had not banned any media outlet like Kenya's neighbours did.
"We have been criticised unfairly but we have been tolerant," he said.
The government had achieved a lot in the past two years but media firms were only looking at its failures, according to Dr Matiang'i.
He said foreign journalists working in Kenya should report fairly and accurately but the government had no intention of victimising them or shutting them down. Kenya Editors Guild chairman Linus Kaikai differed with Dr Matiang'i on media freedom in Kenya, saying it had been a tough two years for media. "The industry has been swinging between hope and despair. The legislative agenda has consistently been one that seeks not to regulate but to curtail the very freedom that makes the work of journalists possible.
"We consider these pieces of retrogressive legislation as a polite way of rolling back the progress of our industry and that of the country," Mr Kaikai said.
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