TMI Overdose: DNG Opens Up About Masturbation Live On Radio

Yesterday, I got the opportunity to listen to "Jaiye Jaiye" in the morning and on a Kenyan station too! 1FM to be exact and I was elated. I was sure my ipod was playing but then I didn't have my earphones on. Then the morning conversation started and my ears bled.





I think gone are the days when eloquence was key for people to get on radio. In it's place, noise and heckling. Gone are the days when people preferred to discuss mature topics with analogies and proverbs and above all else, WIT and HUMOUR!

These days people pretend to want to be direct and "real" when infact they are just being crass and vulgar.

Here's the thing, I care not for how radio presenters talk off air. I am one of the most vulgar people you will ever come across and I take pride in my extensive knowledge of sailor speak. But radio presenters do not have that advantage.

Yesterday on the 1FM breakfast, DNG and Lulu brought up a very interesting topic for discussion: masturbation. And wait, it gets better: this was the topic for the day at a time that coincides with children going to school.

The thing about copying people is that you will never be better than them and you never see the bigger picture. Maina and King'ang'i discuss sensitive topics but have the tact to be vague about them. They use anecdotes and analogies.

What happened on 1FM today is what happens when people copy your work without understanding your formula -they copy the madness, not the formula. You end up discussing masturbation on national radio in the rude and offensive manner that betrays lack of imagination.

And maybe that is what they were going for -shock value. Well, they achieved that. My ears bled. Good one!

I reached out to CCk to find out why such topics are being discussed at such an hour. The deputy director explained to me, "there are check and balances to counter such irresponsibility but implementation is a nightmare as Kenyan media has fought since 2009 to be self regulated."
He also added, "journalists have ethics. Those alone should ideally be enough" (and where that to fail I would suspect that common sernse would kick in!).
He explained that the Media Council of Kenya claims to regulate the media but there is serious conflict of interest as it is controlled by media owners.



I then reeached out to 1FM's producer, DJ Wesley who I think is a stellar guy. His comment was however, "No comment. I'd prefer if DNG commented on that himself." Understandably, he wouldn't want to be standing in the next man's mess.

We did infact attempt to reach DNG but to no avail. We are still however going to continue attempting to reach him for a comment.