Pressure of Covering Spot News Stories

[The Star]Now that tempers have cooled and Kenyans have accepted the inevitable fact that George Saitoti and Joshua Ojode are indeed gone forever, it is professionally appropriate to calmly examine the coverage by the media of the police helicopter crash that killed six people including the two Kenyan leaders on June 10th 2012. It is also appropriate to look at the professional challenges of the coverage of spot news in general in order to learn some vital lessons through a post-mortem exercise.