EDITORIAL: Propaganda cannot work in this era of tech

The bureaucrats managing propaganda must be trapped in a time warp.

The spin doctors retained by the Kenya Kwanza administration must learn, if still unaware, that they live in the 21^st century and what seemed intelligent, even genius in the 80s and 90s, will be blown out of the water and exposed for what it is – cheap, unhinged propaganda.

In the Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi era, if the government announced any edict, there was no question because the government was omniscient.

It beggars belief that anyone hired to manage public affairs in the new world of technology still retains discarded templates of the dark ages.

Take the numbskull who concocted the demo goons script.

To imagine that the public would swallow hook and sinker the rubbish that criminals looted and then set buildings on fire after the demos of last week must imagine a Kenya packed to the rafters with hopelessly naïve youth who have trouble distinguishing between day and night.

Then, to make matters worse, the criminals were even greater imbeciles who decided to help the police by dropping their documents at the scene of the crime.

The propagandists might have imagined that the demos could yield political dividends for Kenya Kwanza but they have sadly exposed their hands for the sad opportunists that they are.

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Quote of the day: “Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country.”—American civil rights lawyer and jurist Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908