Nairobi, July 12 -- Government and media relations have traditionally been tenuous; governments looking at the media as snoozers in affairs deemed good for the citizens while media holding governments accountable on public interest issues.

This is a normal professional thing that must be accepted and respected. Nothing personal.

Challenge has been, in our governments, everybody is a media and communication ''experts" or has some beef with the media while a few journalists/editors have some personal scores with government to sort.

This has escalated the tensions between governments and the media, to a level that is very unhealthy and dangerous. Its now settling of personal scores, in most of the cases, by both the government and a few p...