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The damage will be almost impossible to undo,” Macharia Gaitho, a former managing editor at the paper told local media. “Now it has reinforced those perceptions with action that will be widely interpreted, even if wrongly, as punishing an editor for espousing a view that angered State House. The paper’s support of the opposition party who eventually came to power in 2002 has made the paper seem pro-government in the years since then. Mshindi says between 10% and 15% of the paper’s revenues, on average, come from government advertising. There are estimates that as much as 40% to 50% of Kenyan media outlets’ revenue comes from government advertising-public announcements, police recruitment, government tenders. Now that has been complicated by politics and financing. For years, Kenyan media has been seen as a trusted institution and the Daily Nation was at the forefront of pushing for multiparty democratic elections in the 1990s. Nation Media Group was founded in 1959 and is now the largest private media house in east and central Africa. Kenya is one of few countries on the continent that has a long tradition of private media. The editorial is still on the paper’s website. As a senior editor, it is shocking that he claims he was unaware of what is expected in writing editorials, which represent the position of the newspaper,” Mshindi wrote in an email to Quartz. “Denis was let go because he did not follow procedure and process in filing an editorial. The paper dismisses accusations that its managers are cowing to political pressure.