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[FieldMarshal_CouchP]

@sodamadiaba

I like their news intro tune; This is the BBC London tuurruuurruuuu ruu

He he he he! Hiyo tu ndiyo unapenda?

[upepo]

Kuna kitu inaitwa podcasts where you download and listen to only what you approve. BBC tulikosana wakati walianza ku_promote gayshit.

[sodamadiaba]

@FieldMarshal CouchP

He he he he! Hiyo tu ndiyo unapenda?

Hio tune ni iconic. It has been around tangu jadi.

[zedstark]

You will think that you have stopped listening to the BBC but the alternatives will disappoint you so much that you will drag yourself back. It’s just a matter of time

[Quadro_k4000]

Mimi nilianza kuiskiza siku za tindo mhando na Ziana Seth until now.

[Big_G]

good shiet mzee

[gashwin]

@Bigfish1

Good piece , agree with you, I would add that even our local stations are on the same drug as they never include the ills happening in the West . I’d say it’s a problem with journalism today.

Journalism; the west wrote the stylebook. But our local journalists do not have to slant international stories coz they have no sinister agenda.

[Okwonkwo]

We need a State Department of Propaganda.

[kah_tony]

Great writing mzee. May be that is why BBC was kicked out of Rwanda…

[Mjasusi]

@FieldMarshal CouchP

For the longest time, I have been listening to the BBC, a habit I picked from my own grandfather in the early 1960s, soon after independence. That, and reading the hard-copy of the Daily Nation has been the way I get to know how the world is.

Sadly, over the last few days, I have decided to ditch “Bush House”. The reason is very simple.

Bluntly, the BBC has refused to change with the times. Today, in 2018, the broadcaster still behaves like a colonial bullhorn, belittling people of colour and reinforcing 18th century racist stereotypes. The BBC does this in a clever, subtle and covert politically-correct manner, such as running the bizarre Africa Eye programmes that reports only on the crazy and odd about ‘Africa’, which one would be forgiven to think is a country and not a continent.

If you have listened to the BBC in the last few months you would have heard of the HIV+ Hyena of Malawi who sleeps with under-age girls, the serial rapes of South Africa, the secret detention camps for mentally-challenged Kenyan Somalis, the human sacrifices of Malawi etc etc ad nauseum.

In the same period you would have heard zero about Nairobi’s changing skyline, the vibrant Nairobi Stock Exchange, the rebirth of the Ethiopian economy, Rwanda’s ICT revolution, Malawi’s farming success, or anything good to do with Somalia. Basically, nothing positive from the cesspool/shithole that is ‘Africa’.

Similarly, on the flipside, you would not have heard funny programmes about the gun murders of inner-city America or child pornography rings of Europe, their human -trafficking, serial killers, incestuous families, drug crises etc etc. These are not to be highlighted, apparently, lest they diminish the ethereal glow of White civilisation. There are no special ‘investigative’ programmes to tell you about the witches of France, the White supremacists of Arizona or the Nazis of Ukraine.

Now I know bad news make the headlines, and it is not the duty or responsibility of a historically White supremacist media organisation like the BBC, which used to call freedom fighters like Nelson Mandela, Dedan Kimathi and Robert Mugabe terrorists, to tell our stories. But as long as it is allowed to broadcast on Kenyan – and African - airwaves the BBC has a responsibility to report factually and responsibly on the people of this continent. Otherwise they should simply pack their bags and go.

For the English broadcaster to continue to perpetuate racial stereotypes of a savage, bizarre, dark Africa is unconscionable and unacceptable. That it is uses token people of colour to transmit this racist BS around the world is transparently offensive and downright despicable.

The BBC must become acutely aware that no so long ago it was complicit in the Nazi-type concentration camps in Kenya, for example, that saw up to 20 per cent of the Kikuyu population wiped out. It fully supported the pograms. It must work harder to atone for its support of the Gestapo states that were the colonial administrations in places like Kenya, Yemen, Rhodesia and Malaya, where record shows genocide and crimes against humanity were committed with wanton abandon and impunity.

For it to continue to brutalise the peoples of these countries and regions with unbalanced reporting that depicts them as little more than primitive living artefacts is to show a depravity of attitude that is both psychotic and sociopathic, at the very least. It is sick.

To be fair to the BBC, it is not the only White establishment that has failed to move on with the times. Virtually the entire White establishment has sanitised and distilled racism into an acceptable cocktail of doublespeak and parallel reality where ordinary words, experiences and realities are used to code for unspeakable prejudice and bigotry.

‘Africa’ is now code for ‘black’, as in ‘African migrants’, and children born of white and black couples, like Barrack Obama, are always black because one drop of black blood contaminates the pure ‘white’ lineage, as per the old rules of the South. It is not by happenstance that the president of the United States can call a black woman, however flawed she may be, a doggie. He was probably thinking of the other word with two 'g’s. Racism is alive and well.

The racism of the BBC and its compatriots may be much more refined than Trump’s, but to them all Africa is a cesspool - nay, a shithole - of poverty, corruption and disease, and the average African is a child-like creature that can only be saved from his misery and looming Chinese colonisation by good old Bwana Kubwa – the Big White Messiah, either riding a NGO SUV into a disease hotspot (a brothel, probably) or protecting the rhino from the Yellow Plague From the East (don’t ask where their own big game went).

I respectfully disagree, and vote with my ears. After 50 years, I have finally discovered the radio dial, and will change channels.

I will no longer engage with an old racist colonial relic that sees me as a big red-lipped, always smiling, dancing pickaninny, to quote immediate former British foreign minister Boris Johnson. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

PS: I am sending this to the BBC as well, with the link here so speak out your mind!

It’s very interesting that we as Africans can be so naive as to entrust foreigners to tell our story, then keep crying foul that there is bias. It’s time that we finally man up and tell our story the way we want.

[mkenya_alisi]

This is a well written piece but i beg to differ a little. I started listening to BBC in 1993 while in std 3 or 4 and this has not changed for the last 25+ years. BBC lets us know what the local meadia is hidding from us. As a child i vividly remember about the Rwanda genicide, Liberia Charles Taylor and the blood diamonds, The Congo clashes and many more. This is coursey of BBC. in addition their weekdays outlook programme is quite informative and insightful. It lets you travel the world. In a summary i find their news quite objective as compared to the local channels.

[pipinono]

@kyuktothecore

[SIZE=6]“Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale will always glorify the hunter.”[/SIZE]
-African Proverb.
If we want to change the narrative, we will have to do it ourselves. These international media houses have never given a shit about us. The amazing thing is that setting up a truly Pan-African media house is neither difficult nor expensive in 2018, but for some reason we still depend on the BBCs, CNNs and CGTNs to present African stories. They’ve gotten so crafty that now they have departments dedicated to African news-BBC Africa, CNN Africa and CGTN Africa. Our own media houses buy AFP articles even when they’re reporting on events happening in Kenya! I remember when the bomb blast happened, and all media houses were broadcasting CNN livestream. I was like “How the f**k is this justifiable? So if CNN wasn’t around, we wouldn’t get to view this footage?”. Tiny Qatar has been able to punch waaaaaay above her weight in the international stage solely because of Al Jazeera. Every economic and military powerhouse has used the power of media to advance their agenda. Britain did it with the BBC, America has been doing it with Hollywood, and China is doing it with CGTN.
Africans tuko tuuuu.

@FieldMarshal CouchP

For the longest time, I have been listening to the BBC, a habit I picked from my own grandfather in the early 1960s, soon after independence. That, and reading the hard-copy of the Daily Nation has been the way I get to know how the world is.

Sadly, over the last few days, I have decided to ditch “Bush House”. The reason is very simple.

Bluntly, the BBC has refused to change with the times. Today, in 2018, the broadcaster still behaves like a colonial bullhorn, belittling people of colour and reinforcing 18th century racist stereotypes. The BBC does this in a clever, subtle and covert politically-correct manner, such as running the bizarre Africa Eye programmes that reports only on the crazy and odd about ‘Africa’, which one would be forgiven to think is a country and not a continent.

If you have listened to the BBC in the last few months you would have heard of the HIV+ Hyena of Malawi who sleeps with under-age girls, the serial rapes of South Africa, the secret detention camps for mentally-challenged Kenyan Somalis, the human sacrifices of Malawi etc etc ad nauseum.

In the same period you would have heard zero about Nairobi’s changing skyline, the vibrant Nairobi Stock Exchange, the rebirth of the Ethiopian economy, Rwanda’s ICT revolution, Malawi’s farming success, or anything good to do with Somalia. Basically, nothing positive from the cesspool/shithole that is ‘Africa’.

Similarly, on the flipside, you would not have heard funny programmes about the gun murders of inner-city America or child pornography rings of Europe, their human -trafficking, serial killers, incestuous families, drug crises etc etc. These are not to be highlighted, apparently, lest they diminish the ethereal glow of White civilisation. There are no special ‘investigative’ programmes to tell you about the witches of France, the White supremacists of Arizona or the Nazis of Ukraine.

Now I know bad news make the headlines, and it is not the duty or responsibility of a historically White supremacist media organisation like the BBC, which used to call freedom fighters like Nelson Mandela, Dedan Kimathi and Robert Mugabe terrorists, to tell our stories. But as long as it is allowed to broadcast on Kenyan – and African - airwaves the BBC has a responsibility to report factually and responsibly on the people of this continent. Otherwise they should simply pack their bags and go.

For the English broadcaster to continue to perpetuate racial stereotypes of a savage, bizarre, dark Africa is unconscionable and unacceptable. That it is uses token people of colour to transmit this racist BS around the world is transparently offensive and downright despicable.

The BBC must become acutely aware that no so long ago it was complicit in the Nazi-type concentration camps in Kenya, for example, that saw up to 20 per cent of the Kikuyu population wiped out. It fully supported the pograms. It must work harder to atone for its support of the Gestapo states that were the colonial administrations in places like Kenya, Yemen, Rhodesia and Malaya, where record shows genocide and crimes against humanity were committed with wanton abandon and impunity.

For it to continue to brutalise the peoples of these countries and regions with unbalanced reporting that depicts them as little more than primitive living artefacts is to show a depravity of attitude that is both psychotic and sociopathic, at the very least. It is sick.

To be fair to the BBC, it is not the only White establishment that has failed to move on with the times. Virtually the entire White establishment has sanitised and distilled racism into an acceptable cocktail of doublespeak and parallel reality where ordinary words, experiences and realities are used to code for unspeakable prejudice and bigotry.

‘Africa’ is now code for ‘black’, as in ‘African migrants’, and children born of white and black couples, like Barrack Obama, are always black because one drop of black blood contaminates the pure ‘white’ lineage, as per the old rules of the South. It is not by happenstance that the president of the United States can call a black woman, however flawed she may be, a doggie. He was probably thinking of the other word with two 'g’s. Racism is alive and well.

The racism of the BBC and its compatriots may be much more refined than Trump’s, but to them all Africa is a cesspool - nay, a shithole - of poverty, corruption and disease, and the average African is a child-like creature that can only be saved from his misery and looming Chinese colonisation by good old Bwana Kubwa – the Big White Messiah, either riding a NGO SUV into a disease hotspot (a brothel, probably) or protecting the rhino from the Yellow Plague From the East (don’t ask where their own big game went).

I respectfully disagree, and vote with my ears. After 50 years, I have finally discovered the radio dial, and will change channels.

I will no longer engage with an old racist colonial relic that sees me as a big red-lipped, always smiling, dancing pickaninny, to quote immediate former British foreign minister Boris Johnson. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

PS: I am sending this to the BBC as well, with the link here so speak out your mind!

I could not agree more. But this is non-issue for the rural folks.

The whole of this week i had dedicated to pay a visit to Kitale, Kapenguria and Lodwar towns.

These guys are enjoying life oblivious to your “BBC and some raparians demolitions” rants.

No traffic jams, Kienyenjis kwa wingi, cost of life-bear minimum - ukiwa na 100/= you cant sleep hungry.

[Sogomba_Sadamkale]

Why don’t we have proper platforms to tell our stories? Who pays for BBC, Africans? NO! I believe BBC should pander to the Eurocentric audience as much as it wants. Kazi yetu ni kusupport Maina Kageni na nudist Eric Omondi then play victim when a western based media group doesn’t tell our stories properly. How are they supposed to know? BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION.

My penis is big.

[Markymarc]

@kyuktothecore

[SIZE=6]“Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale will always glorify the hunter.”[/SIZE]
-African Proverb.
If we want to change the narrative, we will have to do it ourselves. These international media houses have never given a shit about us. The amazing thing is that setting up a truly Pan-African media house is neither difficult nor expensive in 2018, but for some reason we still depend on the BBCs, CNNs and CGTNs to present African stories. They’ve gotten so crafty that now they have departments dedicated to African news-BBC Africa, CNN Africa and CGTN Africa. Our own media houses buy AFP articles even when they’re reporting on events happening in Kenya! I remember when the bomb blast happened, and all media houses were broadcasting CNN livestream. I was like “How the f**k is this justifiable? So if CNN wasn’t around, we wouldn’t get to view this footage?”. Tiny Qatar has been able to punch waaaaaay above her weight in the international stage solely because of Al Jazeera. Every economic and military powerhouse has used the power of media to advance their agenda. Britain did it with the BBC, America has been doing it with Hollywood, and China is doing it with CGTN.
Africans tuko tuuuu.

Compare the iq of quatar with iq of any black african country

[Damat]

@Okwonkwo

We need a State Department of Propaganda.

If Jubilee was not full of unimaginative ugali-brain dunderheads they would have long realized the importance of KBC. The answer is staring them right in their fat ugly faces. They could be using the state media house as a tool of social engineering, giving much needed direction to the nation’s culture while showcasing positive govt and private individual achievements like BBC and its subsidiary stations.
But no! stupid govt mofos just let KBC continue to go criminally underfunded and remain mediocre while KTN, NTV Citizen continue to monopolize dispersal of information and entertainment, wakina Aga Khan & SK Macharia with their silly pseudo-journalist staff.
Both International and local media focus on reporting the bizarre and ugly that makes us look as terrible as possible. The disgusting mindset of the staff that work out our stations are no different from racist international media houses. Its why I stopped watching local news, I have barely been keeping up with what’s been going on in this shithole Banana Republic.

[MortyTuumbo]

If we could only rebuild KBC :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Muthamaki]

@Damat

If Jubilee was not full of unimaginative ugali-brain dunderheads they would have long realized the importance of KBC. The answer is staring them right in their fat ugly faces. They could be using the state media house as a tool of social engineering, giving much needed direction to the nation’s culture while showcasing positive govt and private individual achievements like BBC and its subsidiary stations.
But no! stupid govt mofos just let KBC continue to go criminally underfunded and remain mediocre while KTN, NTV Citizen continue to monopolize dispersal of information and entertainment, wakina Aga Khan & SK Macharia with their silly pseudo-journalist staff.
Both International and local media focus on reporting the bizarre and ugly that makes us look as terrible as possible. The disgusting mindset of the staff that work out our stations are no different from racist international media houses. Its why I stopped watching local news, I have barely been keeping up with what’s been going on in this shithole Banana Republic.

You’re obviously extremly young or ignorant about the history of KBC and how it was de-funded.
KBC was set up in the mode of BBC in terms of funding using radio and TV permits but since it had been abused by the Moi regime, the likes of anyang nyongo and other NGO types foolishly passed a law banning radio and TV permits, KBC lost a huge revenue stream and today we’re stuck with the maina kagenis of this world instead of intelligent mass media.:mad:

[Damat]

@Muthamaki

You’re obviously extremly young or ignorant about the history of KBC and how it was de-funded.
KBC was set up in the mode of BBC in terms of funding using radio and TV permits but since it had been abused by the Moi regime, the likes of anyang nyongo and other NGO types foolishly passed a law banning radio and TV permits, KBC lost a huge revenue stream and today we’re stuck with the maina kagenis of this world instead of intelligent mass media.:mad:

Okay then this is what Jubilee lawmakers should be focused on reversing.

We need to do something about Maina Kageni and his ilk.
Its about time we start looking for contacts of good hitmen. Ktalkers watachanga pesa for the fee.

[shocks]

@Muthamaki

You’re obviously extremly young or ignorant about the history of KBC and how it was de-funded.
KBC was set up in the mode of BBC in terms of funding using radio and TV permits but since it had been abused by the Moi regime, the likes of anyang nyongo and other NGO types foolishly passed a law banning radio and TV permits, KBC lost a huge revenue stream and today we’re stuck with the maina kagenis of this world instead of intelligent mass media.:mad:

People will push back if you introduce such a direct tax, ifiche somewhere kama kwa airtime ama import duty za TV, radio, mobile phones and computers.
I like the way NPR is set up in the states, has very good programmes, and it has little government funding

[Okwonkwo]

@Damat

Okay then this is what Jubilee lawmakers should be focused on reversing.

We need to do something about Maina Kageni and his ilk.
Its about time we start looking for contacts of good hitmen. Ktalkers watachanga pesa for the fee.

ati tulipie license ya TV? la hasha… hapana… hatugwes… tumekataa…