{"id":7875,"date":"2022-06-03T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2022-06-03T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T10:00:48","slug":"deputy-president-william-ruto-will-not-participate-in-the-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7875","title":{"rendered":"Deputy President William Ruto will not participate in the Presidential debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to his campaigns secretariat Ruto said he noted media biasness and went on to name two leading private media organizations as \u201cnotorious\u201d for allegedly offering unfair coverage against Kenya Kwanza. One of the media houses is majorly broadcast-based, while the other is print-heavy.\u201cWe note the unequal allocation of coverage, compounded by biased framing and negative profiling of the Kenya Kwanza Alliance campaign and personalities affiliated to it,\u201d the DP said on Thursday, June 2 through his presidential campaigns communications director Hussein Mohamed.Ruto alleges that some media organizations highlighted by his communications team tend to favour Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya presidential aspirant Raila Odinga when it comes to coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/images-45-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/images-45-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/images-45-1-480x359.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to his campaigns secretariat Ruto said he noted media biasness and went on to name two leading private media organizations as \u201cnotorious\u201d for allegedly offering unfair coverage against Kenya Kwanza. One of the media houses is majorly broadcast-based, while the other is print-heavy.\u201cWe note the unequal allocation of coverage, compounded by biased framing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/images-45.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7878,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions\/7878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}