In other words, it was business as usual. But not if you believed the international media which played and replayed scenes of rioting till you felt the whole country was on fire. Remember the television reportage of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena violence in Mumbai? Mumbai’s police took action against three TV channels for their misleading visuals; here in Kenya, the authorities could only grit their teeth and seethe silently. What could they do, anyway, if reports in London or New York or Paris gave the wrong picture?