Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:23:41 +0000 By Stanley Mwiinga WELCOME to the era of social media, where news travels faster than air. Where a single click or wrong posting go viral within seconds. Remember back in the days when communication was not as it is today; remember those days when paper was one of the most important tools of communication. We wrote and received letters that we read, re-read, kept and cherished. I call it the era of patience, and kids of today wouldn’t understand how we waited for days or months to receive a letter or reply from our loved ones. Information was communicated through regulated mediums such as TV and radio channels and any information that was disseminated was verified and factual. Today anyone can be a reporter by just creating a Facebook news page, become admin, and start reporting unethically on a platform that has over 2 billion monthly Facebook active users […]
