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This week, our conversation is on the Kenyan media, one of the institutions that certain Kenyans love to hate and blame for all the shortcomings in the country. Media Madness and the Kenyan Culture of Blame Game, we have called it because that is what it is. This group of Kenyans never see anything good coming from newsrooms, and always feel that the issues that should be covered are never covered. It is not untrue to say that the media have their shortcomings, but they deliver despite the tough conditions they operate in. Invariably, the media have been accused of being corrupt because of certain individual journalists. As a matter of fact, Kenyans, more so the online community, imply that media houses are full of idiots who do not know how to do their job, which in essence, most of the critics do not understand because they are not media-literate, so to write. Internally, media houses have several issues to deal with including sexism and sexual harassment, but at the end of the day, can Kenyan media be redeemed or it is a gone case?