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Council of Kenya CEO Harun Mwangi has said that bloggers need to be accredited to by MCK. He said that if bloggers want to be recognised as journalists then they must have diploma or degree courses in Mass Communication.
Mwangi argued that prosecuting bloggers was a challenge since they cannot be tagged to the journalism career.
Mwangi argued that prosecuting bloggers was a challenge since they cannot be tagged to the journalism career.
“It
becomes very hard when a complaint comes to our office that a blogger
has defamed or abused a person online. This is because bloggers do not
have any idea about journalism or the code of ethics,” said Mr Mwangi.
He
argued that bloggers were tarnishing professionalism in the media with
many abusing social media platform and using it as a tool to breed
ethnicity and hatred.
“Most of them have never stepped
in any media class. That is why they can be able to publish obscenities
and get away with it. They only care for their popularity,” he added.
Addition information by Daily Nation
