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    "id": 1151125,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1151125/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 202,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
        "slug": "samuel-poghisio"
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    "content": "I wish Sen. Wambua would listen. Mr. Speaker, Sir, protect me from a journalist in this House. We are trying to see how to protect journalists, but this one is a threat to us. I have two things to say about the internal threats that journalists face. It is not necessarily external, or from being imprisoned or threatened, it is the very threat of their survival. Sometimes, the journalists have been under paid and overused. Journalist do not have a way of expressing themselves. It is the threat from the media houses that is sometimes worse by not giving them confidence. Journalism must be strong from within and that is one of the areas that needs to be made very clear. We would like our journalists not to be beggars. The correspondence in the rural areas do a lot of work and you will find that they depend on other people to support them. We need to empathize with such journalists. I have been a Minister on that docket, so I know the issues that affect the journalists and I have raised these matters with the employers. At times even the sending of journalists to harm’s way is internally generated. If you are sending a journalist in a place where there is danger and you do not give them the equipment and the necessary support in order to survive in those areas, you are endangering them. Apart from the external effects, forces and dangers that all media personnel face, I would like to address those internal ones so that as we grow journalism and freedom therein, we also give the journalists the ability and capacity to survive. There are very"
}