K24 TV anchor Eric Njoka on Wednesday, October 30, expressed regret amidst mass firing at the station.
The journalist with over ten years of experience in media, took to Instagram to reveal that his biggest regret in life was "choosing media as a career."
Njoka further stated that a career in media wasn't as glamorous as it appeared to be.
"Many have asked me about this but things aren't always what they seem. I have spent more than a decade doing this, even though I am driven by the passion that motivates me every day.
"There are those amongst us who have made it look so grandiose and only for the selected few, a conveyor belt society and system," he stated.
He faulted the system that allowed for any person not qualified in media to have a career in the profession.
"In simple terms, I cannot be a lawyer but a law graduate can easily be me and succeed swiftly in this career, it's TV or radio after all, what could be so hard? Just look and sound good," he lamented.
He opined that it was easy for any person to have a career in media with the only prerequisite being that they have to appeal to the Kenyan audience.
"It's a reality that I and many others have to live with. It's not fair but it is what it is," he concluded.
On Wednesday, October 30, highly placed sources from Mediamax confirmed that a number of senior editors and journalists from different departments had been laid off in the mass firing exercise.
