TOP TRENDS: #SOMEONETELLCNN

Social networks were abuzz late Saturday night through Sunday on news of the grenade attacks that rocked Machakos country bus station and left 6 dead and over 60 casualties. The information was splashed across local television stations with glaring red prints of ‘BREAKING NEWS’ followed by subsequent bulletins of how hand held grenades were consecutively thrown at four spots at the busy terminal from (an) occupant(s) of a Probox that hastily fled the scene there after.

As the news reached global networks, global news station CNN in turn headlined the story with a bold headline that featured the Kenyan flag, which read: VIOLENCE IN KENYA (as pictured above). 

This did not seem to go down well with a cross section of Kenyans on social networks as they started a trending topic titled #SomeoneTellCNN followed by a plethora of advice.

CNN regional representative and reporter David McKenzie went ahead and apologized on his twitter page saying the reporting was ‘accurate’ but ‘the banner used was not’.

Al Jazeera also reported that ‘it appears it was not just a series of blasts, people were also sprayed with bullets.’

Someone actually did go ahead and CALL CNN, and this is how the conversation went (see video below)