K24's Poached News Anchors For Wearing Mitumba High heel Shoes-- Sunday Nation Now Disses UHURU’S K24...
In what some
interpreted as 'looking for a tweef', Sunday Nation yesterday published
an article dissing K24's re-branding last week. In Screenshots section
of Buzz magazine, writer Boniface Mwalii comes out with guns blazing to
ridicule the president-elect's TV station.
The writer takes issue with the fact that almost the entire news crew was
'ripped from Citizen TV’s employee roster'. He then comes short of calling them
cheap, by saying they were dressed in second hand shoes.
However, Mwalii's bone of contention is the fact that the station poached
everyone they wanted, but forgot to poach the one person they needed; the
graphics guy.
"Then it turns out the one guy they couldn’t poach was the only one they
really needed to hire, that is, the graphics guy. I mean, think about it. How
much does the graphics guy at Citizen have to be paid for K24 to opt to retain
such crap graphics than to up his offer?" he writes.
That article has generated a lot of mixed reactions from readers.
NTV journalist Larry Madowo, who has been poached, re-poached and poached
again, had this to say.
Not
exactly a glowing review. But those (of us) who live in glass houses don't
throw (too many) stones
Saddique Shaban
wondered whether the writer had missed an opportunity (to get poached). He
wrote,
This
hurts. Smacks of a missed opportunity or sore grapes.
Here are some
thoughts from other readers.
Naona
mmenza ka tweef na @K24Tv - Manuel Ofishal
This was long over due #someonetell @K24Tv - Asin Yuri
Haha, hit below the belt on this one. Lmfao - Simon Swach
Why was there no such article when KTN raided ntv? - Aisha
Here's the full
article.
The
great American rock band Bon Jovi sang in their classic jam, “the more things
change, the more they stay the same”.
Well,
it appears someone at K24 was reading from this script when they promised ‘big’
changes in the rebranded station.
First,
was it just me or did anyone else get the impression that the words “March
18th” had been preprogrammed into the zombified minds of the entire news crew?
It
was as if that was the only thing they could remember from their ‘past lives’.
If the aim was to ensure Kenyans never forget the said date, well, they
succeeded alright. In more ways than one.
Beginning with the
fact that more than half of the entire news crew was practically ripped from
Citizen TV’s employee roster complete with their mitumba high heels and 2¾
piece suits.
It’s
like watching an episode of 2 Broke Girls then instead of Max, they have Dr
House being mean to Caroline all the time. There’s nothing really different
about the outcome but you still feel cheated about it.
Then it turns out the
one guy they couldn’t poach was the only one they really needed to hire, that
is, the graphics guy. It was like going back in time to when VoK was labelled
as futuristic.
I mean, think about
it. How much does the graphics guy at Citizen have to be paid for K24 to opt to
retain such crap graphics than to up his offer? Kids, this is where you
consider re-evaluating your career choices.
And
why in the name of Kronos was 9 o’clock news 30 minutes late on the day when
everyone paid more attention to K24 than the sukuma wiki on their dinner
plates? Was it so that they could show us their entire programme schedule for
the next month? I guess it’s just as well.
The only glimmer of
hope (pardon the irony) came when the lights went off as a reporter was telling
us (for the 73rd time) how things were going at the official launch at the
National Museum. You would think that for once KPLC would make good use of our
taxes and replicate the same at the studio but alas, haven’t they always
excelled at disappointing?
I guess at this point
the only thing left to do is feign acceptance and live with our bad choices as
a people for the rest of eternity. Or we could all just hang ourselves.
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