What if every media entity in Kenya had leading lights like Mohammed Ali, John-Allan Namu and the baritone-voiced Dennis Okari?
What if all these entities had regular chilling exposes or brilliantly balanced investigative pieces about the wrong things that happen in this country we call home?
More interesting, what if the media was awash with serious anchors like Beatrice Marshall and Njoroge Mwaura, authoritative voices like Mambo Mbotela, Badi Muhsin or courageous personalities like Jeff Koinange?
All these questions are posed by an individual who is not yet 30 years old, but feels the current crop of media personalities are the biggest problem the country is facing every single day.
I grew up listening and cramming obscene-filled lyrics from Snoop Dogg and misogynists artists like Eminem.
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I have watched rated material from USA the same way I did not bat an eyelid while watching cheap nudity from Kenya.
But I know from the bottom of the heart that when it comes to matters that matter, news and accountability should be handled with the seriousness it deserves. There is a reason why news comes at the top of the hour and even eateries in semi-formal settlements are always full during these important moments.
The recent and ongoing stand-off between the Government through the Teachers Service Commission and teachers is a bad experience of how the media is derailing the country.
Education is an integral aspect of our country on which there should be no compromise. Such a situation called for the media to lay all the facts out and in the open.
What has happened is that a month after the industrial action started, there is still debate about who is right and who is pushing.
The public is more lost than when the strike started.
We did not need to come to that. The media need to rise above thanking reporters for news pieces and putting the issues on the table.
Apart from a few journalists who tried to crunch out the numbers involved, the majority were taking the issue at face value.
The ongoing scandal involving the NYS is another serious matter. Months earlier, we were convinced no money had been stolen. There was a story in the grapevine that a media house had pulled down a story on the conduct of a top Government official.
A smart journalist should have sensed there was more to that. We cannot accept statement after statement, relayed by the media, of money not being lost and the same money being stolen.
The country must have a lot of money to not lose money and then lose it later. Impossible!
Politicians will always be politicians. Whatever politicians say should just be a side bar to the whole story.
Politicians are literally paid to shout. But the media is supposed to focus our attention to the right details of our lives.
There is need for the media to re-educate us on what really matters. If we need comical nourishment or to see pretty faces on our television, we know where to look but the news bulletin should not be our primary source for that.
The media needs to move with world trends. The immediate VW CEO Martin Winterkorn had to walk away because when it comes to safety, smarter and informed people are serious. When the media in the West pick on such a subject, an apology or a resignation soon follows. There is always a consequence to bad conduct. Those are the standards our media should strive for.
The spirited efforts of the media during the trying times when they were fighting the Government on the implementation of the digital migration should be put up in all fights that matter.
We have a scandal almost every week; from expensive remote-controlled wheelbarrows to Machiavellian curtains. Public coffers are milked dry as our anchors and reporters fight for higher ratings, tailors and barbers.
Investigative journalism is not cut out for every Tom, Dick and Harry but it seems universities, colleges and media institutions need to do more to instil a sense of responsibility, alertness and instinct in reading between the lines.
The media personnel need to go beyond the selfies and be selfish with our country.