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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the benefit of the Senators, I just want to inform the House that yesterday the Committee on Information and Technology visited KBC. We even went to the studio that covers this House and we expressed the same sentiments that are being expressed here, including, not just the quantity of the coverage that the House gets, but also the quality of coverage we get. In other words, sometimes you can see a camera focusing on empty chairs which is really not supposed to be the case in parliamentary coverage. I think that that is only one area of coverage. We have a Broadcasting Committee that is composed of Members from the two Houses. The long term solution that we expressed to the KBC was that upon moving from an analogue to digital platform for broadcasting, then what should happen is that the Senate should actually have its own channel and the National Assembly as well, so that if people want to switch to the Senate, they do so and if they want to watch the National Assembly debates, they also switch to their channel so that, that competition for time would then not be there. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is more than that because this also applies to the print media. Sometimes you can find the reporting on Parliament and you wonder whether the Senate exists. To that extent, we have also contacted some of those media houses and I know that there is a meeting that is being organized between some of the print media houses, the Committee on Information and Communication and the Committee on Broadcasting."
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