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Ruto attacking Standard Media Group over unpaid workers is not concern for journalists, it is comedy from a President whose own government has helped starve media houses through advertising politics.
When he became President, he wanted media houses to worship him, massage his ego and treat every State House statement like gospel, but when some media houses refused to kneel properly, the government advert tap started being used as punishment.
That is where GAA money enters the story, because government advertising was turned into a political tap, opened for friendly media houses and closed for those that refused to become State House mouthpieces.
The Star got the deal because it became useful to the regime, but even that money is said to pass through hungry State House cartels who eat heavily before the real media business feels anything meaningful.
And let us be honest, The Star lost the public because many Kenyans no longer see it as a serious independent paper, they see it as a Ruto regime mouthpiece that traded trust for access and government favour.
So Ruto should stop pretending he cares about workers at Standard Media Group.
His government is part of the suffering of those employees, because once State advertising money became a loyalty reward, media houses that refused to sing for him were left to struggle while praise singers were fed.
This is not workers’ rights activism from Ruto.
It is a President mocking people who are already suffering from a system he helped weaponize........
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