New York Post Misses Full Story on CNN Correspondent

I came across a story in the New York Post alleging that Jeff Koinange, CNN's chief Africa correspondent since 2001, was canned by the network "after dozens of lascivious e-mails he wrote to a woman ended up on the Internet."

The woman was a Swiss author, Marianne Briner. This sounded like such a peculiar story that I did some additional checking on the web. Go to a blog called Kumekucha You Missed This and you see an accusation of date rape. Then head to the Journal-Isms column at the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education site and you learn that supposedly Briner has accused a number of Kenyan government ministers of being involved with her and then said that she had an affair with former Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi. This tale of words over the Internet and perhaps more is clearly far more complicated than the Post indicated, even though it's report is dated after these other postings came out. Maybe it's time to revisit some basics - like research.