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By Jackal News Team May 18, 2012, 7:04 pm

JACKAL NEWS - The Daily Nation covers political stories in a way that many media organizations sometimes envy. But on Friday, its front page story was total bull-crap. “Ruto And Uhuru Alliance In 14 Million Vote Plan,” was the headline and its detailed sto... more



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LATEST STORIES

Woman Forced To Have Several Amputations After Failed Butt Injection

Standard Online Staffers Have Serious Bones To Pick With The Management

State Press Regulator Admonishes Uhuru Kenyatta’s PR Team Over Lunch Inducement

Seven Ambitious Kenyans Among 34 Finalists For CNN Journalist Of The Year Award

S. K. Macharia Vernacular Radios To Be Yanked Off Air In Battle For ‘Political’ Airwaves

Kenyatta's TNA Party (anti-)PR Team Says Sorry, Then Patronizes Again

UPDATE: Kenyan Journalists Say Uhuru Kenyatta’s Free Lunch Offer In Party Launch Is Bullshit

UPDATE: Kenyan Minister Njeru Githae's Son Kills Himself - The Rich Also Cry

How Kenyan Lawmakers “Lost” The Battle To Cap Interest Rates

Bones of Turkana: Meave And Richard Leakey On Human Ancestors And The Leakey Legacy

Mary Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Wife, Found Dead

Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylors Says He’s No Threat To Society At Sentencing Hearing

Virgin Atlantic Withdraws Heathrow-Nairobi Flights, Blames Government Taxes

Tales Of More Graft And Mismanagement Suspected At Kenya Institute Of Education

Why France’s New First Lady Is Straight-Up Awesome

KTN Claims Copyright To “Newsnight” Urges Rival KISS TV To Drop It Or Be Sued

One Killed In Mombasa Grenade Attack; More In Daadab

UPDATE: KTN Editor’s File Missing From Nairobi Police Post As Conspirancy Talks Intensify

Go-Slow, Low Morale Nearly Grounds Mombasa-Based Baraka FM Radio Over Unpaid Dues

Focus On Crucial Media Bills, Ratings Fraud As Kiprono Kittony Takes Charge Of Press Cartel

Rwanda Genocide Fugitive Felicen Kabuga Still Hiding In Kenya: ICTR Prosecutor

Funeral Turns to Festivity After Man Wakes Up from Death Shortly Before Burial

Rival Firms Seek To Bleed Standard Newspaper’s Business Desk

Kenyan Police Search For Fashion Model's Ex-boyfriends Over Murder

After Bidding Themselves Out Of Govt Tender, Cartel Determined To Kill Kenya’s NHIF Health Scheme

UPDATE: Star Newspaper, Maverick Jurist Ahmednassir Abdullahi Locked In Murky Battle

Ugandan Troops Capture Top Commander in Joseph Kony's Rebel Army

Potential Mischief As Police Charge KTN's Mohamed Ali Of Handling ''Stolen Nokia''

Nation Newspaper Loosens Screws On Suspended News Editor Eric Shimoli

Raila Odinga And William Ruto Have Been Meeting Over Possible Deal

According To Newsweek, Barack Obama Is US ‘First Gay President'

Manchester City Wins Premier League Title In Wild Finish

Let Us All Support Mothers, For They Will Change The World

Jennifer Hudson Grateful For Guilty Verdict In Family Murder Trial

Stop Lying! Kenyan Government Will Not Lose Money In NHIF ‘Scandal’

70-Year-Old Abstinent Singer Looking For Handsome Millionaire To Take Her Virginity

Standard Reporters Wandering, Now Using Cybers After City Centre Office Shut

German Police Really Don’t Like Shooting At People, Used Only 85 Bullets Last Year

Murder In Remote Kenya Reverberates Across Nation And World

Valiant Journalist In Western Kenyan Faces Death Threats

CNN's Report On Ciku Muiruri; Unapologetic Classic FM’s “Busted” Host

Chamgei FM Manager, Kass Presenter Throw Adolescent Tantrums On Facebook

London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got The Olympics

Civil Servants Ask Kenyan PM Raila Odinga To Cease Verbal Warfare With Estranged Deputy

Safaricom Suffers Major Data Outage; As “Unlimited Data” Customers Stampede To Rivals

Nation Media Group Grapples With Sacking Journalists Without Degrees

Top US University Honours Fallen Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai In Its 225 Anniversary Timeline

Miguna Miguna’s Book ‘Peeling the Mask’ Is About To Hit The Market

Finally, President Barack Obama Comes Out

Nation Media Group Indefinitely Suspends News Editor Eric Shimoli

What Is Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta Suing The Star For

In Dictatorial Sudan, Journalist Detained; Newspapers Confiscated

Stubborn Islamists Ban Alcohol, Unveiled Women And Music In Three Northern Mali Towns

Kenyan Editor, Robert Soi Confirms CCTV Is Not Impartial, PR Utensil For China

China Expells Al Jazeera English Correspondent Melissa Chan

Peter Kenneth's Constituency Success; Should He Be Elected Kenyan President?

Lawsuit Alleges John Travolta’s Penis Is ‘Roughly Eight Inches’ With ‘Unkempt’ Pubes

Standard Group Shuts City Centre Office, Orders Staff Relocate To Mombasa Road HQ

Musalia Mudavadi’s Links To Presidents Moi And Kibaki Could Come To Haunt His Campaign

Annoyed KBC Staff “Tenants” Demand Delay In Board Of Trustee Polls Until Corruption Fully Probed

Martha Karua Loses Temper On Twitter Combat Over Her Credentials

Lack Of Cash Awards Soak Zeal At Kenya Journalists Peacockery Gala

Kenyan Prof Makau Mutua's Woes Pile After US Scholar Files Suit Over Unfair Dismissal

Adieu, Sarkozy: France Has A New President, Francois Hollande

UPDATE: NMG Denizens Salute Churchill Otieno’s Appointment As Digital Chief; Disturbed By Increasing Tribal Trend

UPDATE: Musalia Mudavadi Tells Raila Odinga To Forget Kenyan Presidency And Retire

I Was Not Responsible For “Kanu Briefs” - Philip Ochieng

Standard Group Unveils Digital Platform; Deploys Hardened David Ohito As Editor

Kenya's Ex-Cabinet Chief Francis Muthaura Is Not Sick, Keeping Low Profile

Ninety Percent of South East Asian Schoolchildren Are Nearsighted

Assassination Claims And Threats In Kenya: What Is The Bigger Picture, If Any?

People Saturday Edition Re-launched With Some Slight Improvement

Kenyan Media Regulator Set To Heavily Fine Classic FM Over Morning “Porn Show”

Otto Bakano, Nairobi’s Most Dangerous Journalist Quits AFP, Heads To United Nations

Deeply Troubled People Newspaper Launches Weekend Edition

Suspected Mismanagement, Graft Force Education Minister Mutula Kilonzo To Snub KIE Invitation

Olympic Legend Kelly Holmes Warns: Usain Bolt May Lose To Yohan Blake In London

Vogue Says No More Underaged Models

Letters From Osama Bin Laden

Njoki Karuoya Takes Charge Of Standard Group’s Mags, Managers Cryptically Talk Of Job Stability

Mudavadi Screwed Golden Opportunity; UDF Is Just Another Special Purpose Vehicle

Standard, Nation Take Vain Contest, Rivalry To Journalists' Gala

Bacteria Are Fighting a Giant, Mysterious War in Your Vagina Right Now

Ex-Standard Journalist ''Leaked'' Her Sex Photos To Milk Boyfriend, Blackmail Embassy

Zimbabwe Drops Charges Against Women ''Semen Hunters, Rapists''

Not Again: Gunmen Kill Radio Journalist In Somalia As Anti-Press Attacks Escalate

This Treasure Hunter Says He Has Located Bin Laden’s Body

Musalia Mudavadi Semi-Quits Government Post; Was He Paid To Leave ODM? Maybe

British MPs Issue Devastating Verdict On Rupert Murdoch Phone-Hacking

Sacked Kenyan Judges To Exit With Dignity As New Appeals Court Chief Elected

Horrified Vatican Condemns Anti-Christian “Terrorist” Raids In Kenya And Nigeria

Safaricom Halts “Unlimited Data” Internet And Blames Peculiar Customers

Want A Future In Journalism? Move to Kenya

Joseph Kony Is Proving Difficult to Nab, Even for Elite U.S. Forces

US President Barack Obama Kills At The White House Correspondents' Dinner

Much-Awaited Al Jazeera Kiswahili Moves Back To Doha, Delays Launch

One Killed In Nairobi Church Grenade Blast

Bahari FM Secretly Hiring Journalists In Mombasa Amid Mijikenda News Rumours

World Record Holder for Longest Living Person with Bullet in Head Dies

Economically Depressed Greece Plagued by Rash of Suicides