Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Drag n Drop/Copy paste.

During the festivity i was in my native place and it was quite interesting of how i had to change the 'used-to-me' to another me;i mean i decided to keep myself busy in another way as to how am used to.I tell you the better part of me was spent exploring each and every part of the gazzette,yeah it sounds funny,but that was me; not in any way trying to blog.

Quite true i never regret any of this since i came to see all the stuff that one gets to miss, i gues, i get to miss.Most of my time last year having been spent on things such as researchs,analysis and lots of presentations you ought to support that i aint ignorant and that as well doesnt qualify me as arrogant either.

One issue in particular made me(call me naive if you like)dimiss some creativity of our press and the associated press[AP] and wonder what really these guys aniwe did there.I remember the December 20th paper very well, a paper on which i wished had covered my potrait holding my chin in a retrospective manner as the front page or even at the best showing the world Saddam's last mail in advance.

Actually i came to criticize the attention given to to the columnists and good story keepers as of that issue by the editors.I mean the paper had three quarters of it covering images(call them pictures again if..) ,unrealistic ones,the ones zero-rated as it matters in terms of creativity,the ones you drag and drop,not even drooling around,damn this furioriated me,i promise you i could have spat but not infront of my grandmother[i mean i had to sound decent].If you ever have gotten a glimpse of the NY times newspaper you are bound to apprecite the kind of work done by the editors and ofcourse not that am dismissing all the editors,some are really creative the likes of Peter Githaiga,seen his coverage?

Yes i definetly know that a picture is worth a thousand nods but finding ten from that (whole paper imagine!)one was really a nightmare.

Not that they couldnt have done better,but that paper was just so unappreciative,so not there!Lets learn to give interest to writers ,again i have to say that i came to see some light lit atleast from other issues and i gues we've got alot to give.At least i can address the theme of 'all is not lost' here!

2 comments:

bantutu said...

And that is why am bursting on the scene very soon...yani as soon as I take care of a little matter I like to call Porous Pants...Sina hardware...But the eye,the eye...keep yours peeled..>>

Acolyte said...

I do hope things get better in the kenyan media come 2007. Belated happy new year by the way.