use social media and adopt a polling station otherwise how has IEBC blocked any journalist from covering anything.
Let me try again:
1. NOBODY is saying the media was blocked by anybody from covering results
2. The media for some reason decided to cover BOMAS and neglected or refused to cover the constituencies and polling stations
For the record however Jubilee DID block the media from freely announcing results:
Omorlo,
There was some sort of back and forth of media's role and the end was that they would ONLY announce or broadcast IEBC results. Since form 34A are final, then any media tallying and reporting forms 34A is only reporting IEBC figures.
You are right in that they failed to focus on the Constituency tallying. I heard Macharia Gsitho claim that NTV had dispatched 300 journalists to constituencies to do this but he was at pains to explain why they never published the results. I also recall Ken Okoth saying they camped at Upper Hill tallying center for Kibra Constituency and there was no media,nor observer or agent in sight.
I personally think these factors contributed to this lethargy by all media houses;
1. They overly concentrated on presidential elections and settled for the portal figures
2. They got too lazy chasing polling stations while text data and forms 34A were hitting the portal fast.
3. Counting at polling station is simultaneous meaning it takes extensive manpower to grab forms 34A in real time
4. Constituency tallying took days and everyone got bored.