The attack on young journalists in Uganda by the old guard is on the rise

For us that grew up in the city, born and raised that it is here in Kampala.

 We would consider people like Chris Obore very much as villagers.

 In fact, a few years ago these are the type of guys we would kick out of the city screaming, "go back to your village."  He is not different from my cousin Kimbugwe  who sold his inherentance to buy a boda boda. 

Mr. Obore, whom I have meant by the way in a large setting is a good example of what happens to Africans when they are out in positions of authority. 

The fact is Chris Obore is always been an idiot who likes to refer to himself as an "elite" ! 

I swear those tapes are there as you hear him say in his broken English, "we the elite this, we the elite that,"...

Journalist in Uganda, like the rest of the population have to servive. 

They wakeup every morning, many of them young and go out to do a job that pays less than five dollars a day on avarage. 

These young men and women therefore have to hustle to make an extra dollar on the side.

 It is the way business is done in Uganda anyways, and Mr. Obore should know that.

If you need a bed in Mugalo for example after a boda boda accident , you have to pay a few shillings to get servive, if you need a letter of recommendation from a local chairman or a residence district commissioner, you have to pay a few a few shillings to that Chairman, RDC, or GSO. 

So Mr. Obore has to know when a member of parliament wants a journalist to come out and cover them at their lousy press conference... they have to cover that journalist too, why should they not accommodate the poor journalist for transport and food while we are at it? 

Chris Obore has lost his mind every since he got a job at parliament. Now he suffers from the same "big man/woman syndrome" that is sweeping every corner of leadership in Uganda.

 Indeed if you want to see the true colours of the so called "elite" Ugandans, give them some authority. 

Chris Obore is a good example of someone who came from a village far away now that he has some TV light on him and makes a few extra shillings than a teacher, a police officer and a government nurse. He now thinks he's the shit. 

This is fair critiisitm while I watched my favorite TV show at my apartment in Bunga, I couldn't help but walk away from my TV set when Mr. Obore started attacking journalist that cover parliament. How he thinks they are not up to the job and that they beg monies for transport from members of government. 

The fact is true. But journalists in Uganda work in a hustle environment, they are paid peanuts and they do practice very indifferent ways to earn extra money. Not to mention, not many of them are not trained proffesionals in journalism. 

They are college graduate unemployed youth running up and down around government officials to put a cheap camera in front of them in hopes of getting on a soda, some chapattis and Mandanzi! 

The attack on young journalists in Uganda by the old guard like this man is on the rise. But they should know, times are changing. 

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Social Media is Killing the brains of young Ugandans.

   

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Recently Mr. Andrew Mwenda, "The Old Man Who Knows It All," posted the words below on his Facebook page! 

He wrote....

 "Social media has killed the brains of many young people. In the olden days, to publish an opinion you needed to convince editors with the intellectual rigor of your argument. So you had to back your argument with facts, tone your language and improve your writing style. 

With social media, anyone with an idea, however stupid and incoherent, however uninformed and ridiculous, however uncouth and insulting, can post it on social media and get their voice heard - if anyone hears them at all. 

While this may have "democratized" public discourse, it has also adulterated it. Just imagine if all you needed to get a PhD was to write 300 pages of whatever came to your mind. What would happen to academia? That is what has happened to public debate."

And so that is the motion for debate 

Has social media killed the brains of young  Ugandans! Clearly the answer is hell no! Social media has improved the brains of young Ugandans. It has exposed many of us to a world beyond our slams and villages. The fact that my cousin in Ssinda Village no longer needs these so called "independent" print media, mainly newspapers, to deliver him NEWS is quite awesome....

I would really like to remind him of the old days! The days before social media! Back in the print media golden ages. 

My avarage circle of friend here in Kampala make about 10.000 shillings a day. Judging by the size of their businesses most of them cannot spare a single shilling to buy a newspaper, but most can afford Internet bundles to have their smart phones buzzing....

So once upon a time....

.....🇺🇬🇺🇬 all opinions were published in  a packaged form of-propaganda, where the editor sold you their edited platforms of issues approved of course by the governments, in countries  like ours; freedom of press is an illusion like all other freedoms are here currently in Uganda.

These cash for trush "independent" publications carried all the days opions.

These editors and founding members of gaint newspapers were indeed and always after revenue and only please the reader here and there the way soda companies sells us sugar water for  

Sh 3000 a bottle we can make ourselves with a little, water, sugar and food-colour! 

These editors are now pissed off that their long term investinment, their cash for trush publications  are not enjoying that miginal profits they sought after, that's why they think that social media is killing our brains ...because social medi also eats all of their advertising revenue.....they are are no longer cashing in heavy on advertising because people can do so directly via social media ..more on that later....

I was a kid when I first fell in love with reading and writing. It could have been at my Nursery school down @ Kasubi Church of God Nursery, it could have been at my primary school, Green Valley Primary School or my secondary school in the village of Kabimbiri. 

But along the way, on these old narrow and dusty roads on top of hills in Kampala🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 or back on those long narrow village roads of Ssinda, I sought  after printed words... 

For primary school I walked all over Kampala. I would walk for Kasubi, back when it was a surburb not a slam it is now....I would walk from Kasubi all the way to Green Valley Primary School in the center of the city. My school was opposite Kiseka Markert. 

On my walk to school. I would catch many adults onlooking onto new-paper stands, the same way many do now for TV news in my hood. 

In my hood, in fact I don't know many Ugandans that have TVs to watch the news or soccer, their favorite sports....As much I don't know many Ugandans that own cars or have simple plumbing in their houses. 

Most of us are simple slam people who only used print media materials to wipe our asses after taking a shit or packing our fried cassavas to school the next morning. 

Those were the old print days...

Today, most if not all my friends in Uganda have a smart phone. We also listen to radio. Many of us still can not afford a television set, to watch soccer we crowd ourselves to the nearest TV set in tens. But we have smart phones, and yes we all over social media. We share stories, pictures and events quicker than we did before. 

We are well aware of the whole picture and in fact we consume some good print media when we can afford to spare a shilling..

 Social media allows young people to post their opinions,  like I am doing here, without approval of an editor....it is raw, politicaliticly incorrect, intellectual rigor of MY ME  arguments not some editor dude who has a degree in marketing and a dick a size of a toothpick to decide for me what I can express or how to do so....it is my tone, my language and my writing style, however ....

"stupid and incoherent, however uninformed and ridiculous, however uncouth and insulting," it is mine/ours and we share it with our comrades.....

For many other reasons left out for further  in depth narration.... I am against this motion...I believe that' "The Old Man Who Knows It All," is wrong as usual. 

Andrew Mwenda is wrong because print media had many flaws. They got and still get many stories wrong. Reporters are paid to twist and spin the words of a story to fit the platform they are working for! I can go on and on! 

 So No! Social media is not killing the brains of young people! It is improving the skills of how to communicate! It's why some governments shut it down during critical moment! 

For God and My Country! 

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