A special investigations team constituted by Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i is seeking to have Parliament enact laws that will ensure what it terms as responsible journalism.
The proposal follows a government report that accused the media of fanning student unrest that saw a wave of arson attacks by students in schools countrywide last year.
The report alleged that exaggerated news reports were partly to blame for the upheaval that paralysed learning in the schools for most of the second term.
"Sensational media reports were cited as one of the causes of unrest since many reports seemed to glorify negative students' activities," the report read in part.
Matiang'i's committee believes that such laws will prevent the media from exaggerating some of the incidents as the report seemed to imply.
"For example, one media house reported the burning of four dormitories in one school whereas none had actually been burnt and there was no form of unrest experienced in the school," the report indicated.
Further, the report indicted members of the fourth estate of creating heroes out of mischievous characters after some students confessed that they torched their schools in order to appear on television.
"Some programmes that ran on national TV seemed to glorify delinquency, systematically creating heroes out of truant students," the report accused.
