Investigative blogger Kathryn Cramer says,
I just went to the site of the Kenya Broadcasting corporation to look at something on Google News and it looks like they're in the middle of a fullscale media shutdown. Some subversive soul has found a way into the corporate site and has added the shot of the burning newspapers at the printing press while I've been looking at it.
Link to more on Kathryn's blog. Cropped screengrab above, Link to full-screen image of KBC's website.
Update, 715am PT:
Lede from AP item — "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." Link.
Kathryn adds,
A couple of days ago I spotted this hard-hitting set of photos from Flickr user mwasb having to do with the corruption scandal in Kenya — here they are.
Charity Ngilu, shown in this photo, is the minister of Health in Kenya.
Further along in that stream is a photo of a freshly killed man taken a while back with the explanation that "A suspected robber who was shot by police in the streets of Nairobi, Kenya. Cold blood execution of suspects by police officers is a common occurence in Kenya due to high level of violent crime."
Some of those photos are from October, 2005 — from a different or earlier scandal. However, the scenes do demonstrate the Kenyan government's relationship to the press.
