The Media fight! Citizen TV’s Terry Anne Chebet faces off with James Smart because of this

Monday, 21 December 2015 - Two of Kenya’s most celebrated news anchors were last evening engaged in a heated war of words over the appropriate way of delivering a breaking news story.

Citizen TV’s Terry Anne Chebet engaged former KTN anchor James Smart in a heated debate on how journalists should deliver breaking news, where she insisted that despite the rush to be the fast to break a news story, all journalists need to be factual.

The heated debated between the two accomplished journalists begun after various reporters rushed to report that a bomb had been found in an Air France aeroplane and had forced it to land at Mombasa’s Moi International airport.

However, it later turned out that there was no bomb aboard the Boeing 777 that was heading to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris from Mauritius.

Below is a screen shot between the two journalists' debate, that has left many asking whether or not Kenyan journalists are keen on reporting whats factual or just hearsay:


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