Should there be limits of freedom in the press.

SHOULD THERE BE LIMITS ON THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
Limits of the freedom of the press should be installed.
The reason is because once these press institutions are allowed to write everything, they will probably corrupt and change the mind of the masses.
As it is known already, the press newspapers and articles are the voice of the masses, so a small permission by the press to the government may bring about numerous complains and even rebellion to the government.
The government has secrets which are not useful to the people. Example is the paper in government called the ‘Kenya Gazette’. It is a newspaper that contains all the ongoing practices in parliament, it also contains the hidden secrets of Kenya. When the press is allowed to write and publish everything, the enemies of our country Kenya may know our secrets and they may easily destroy our income resources and thus demolish the prevailing peace and unity in our country.
The press persons are professionals in exaggerations. They may enlarge a small issue and make it a country wide pandemic, although it is from this exaggerations that they earn their daily bread, it may cause a worse turn around of events, for example tribal wars, this may cause a deteriorating economy in our country and thus welcome poverty-a great enemy.
When the press lacks anything astonishing to surprise the people, they may end up giving fake propaganda to the public. Due to their creativity they may make up anything whether optimistic or pessimistic so as to get good sales of their articles.
They usually value money more than public effect. For example, if the press put up a story that is undermining the efficiency of the government, all the people will change their attitudes toward the government and they may feel totally exploited. This will cause a great drift in the economy of the country since many people will refuse to pay taxes.
There are some press institutions that produce pornographic literature, magazines and films, once these pornographic materials reach the untargeted group, it may lead to obscene exposure to the minds of the group , for example children. A child will have the desire to engage in sex which leads to fornication. Once one is addicted to sexual intercourse, he or she may eventually acquire sexual transmitted disease or even H.I.V/ AIDS which is a killer disease. This leads to low population and thus a great depreciation in economy.
So if these press institutions have no limited freedom, they may corrupt minds and change the country to a prostitution camp. This may lead to deaths and loss of hope among the public.
As to me, the freedom of the press must be limited.
It is mandatory for the limitation of the freedom of the press.

BY GREGORY MBUGUA.