Results of egosearching on MSN. My favorite:
“It’s just quicker this way,” Ochsenhirt says. “I mean, sure, I’m never totally clean — but I’m always wide awake! If I’m running the dishwasher at the same time, I have to shower in decaf, but otherwise it’s been great!”
[via Weblog Tools Collection and Scoble]
According to the AP, Kenyan state police have attacked Kenyan media, shuttering the Standard newspaper and Kenya Television Network.
Masked, plainclothes police carrying assault rifles staged a midnight raid on the country’s oldest newspaper and its sister television station early Thursday, burning tens of thousands of newspapers in the most dramatic attack on the press in Kenya’s history.
The closures of The Standard and the Kenya Television Network marked the first time a Kenyan government has shut down a major media company and followed the detentions of several journalists.
The Kenyan media have angered the government by reporting on corruption scandals involving President Mwai Kibaki. The government left no doubt this was why they arrested reporters and burned newspapers:
“If you rattle a snake you must be prepared to be bitten by it,” Interior Security Minister John Michuki told journalists. Speaking in Swahili, he said the police raid was necessary to demonstrate state authority.
Police are still holding three reporters and two editors from The Standard following the raid. Justice Jessie Lesiit of the Kenyan high court has summoned the police commissioner general Hussein Ali to court Friday to state why he is still holding three journalists. KBC had hoped to have the station back on the air by now, but their website still states that “Kenya Television Network, KTN is off-air and Standard newspapers off streets after people said to be security agents conducted an overnight operation shutting down their facilities.” [screenshot].
This is bad news for Kenyans. When embattled, corrupt politicians attack independent media, it is often a precursor to larger assaults on the populace.
