When in April of last year I criticized The Standard and called the Kenyan newspaper a tabloid for running what I thought was a speculative, sensational story, some accused me of singling out the publication.

“The (Daily) Nation had run with a similar story only the same week,” one respondent wrote.

“Does anyone have any proof that [Nicholas] Biwott was at all involved in Ouko’s murder? Did you consider The Nation a tabloid for publishing that?” another one asked.

And my reply to them was that The Nation was not the one “moaning about a (government) vendetta, so let’s keep it out of this until its time comes.”

That time is now.

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Stephen Wanyama on a recent article in the Daily Nation and its bias against Raila Odinga. Read the rest here.

A lot has been made in the past few weeks about the use of insulting language in politics. The warnings against incitement and provocative behavior were targeted mainly at the political class. In the past week however, the Daily Nation has shown that it too is deserving of a telling off. On the 28^th of April, under the same campaign that led to a vicious attack on Mwingi South Mp Kalonzo Musyoka, the Nation Group hid behind a Special Correspondent of some sort to issue what is truly a vicious round of invective against the MP for Langata and aspirant for the ODM-K Presidential ticket.