This is a study of community radio and the post election violence in Kenya in which over 1000 people were killed and over 300,000 others became internally displaced, living in make-ship tents in camps for several months after the violence. The study findings showed that in the perceptions of the communities served by three community radio stations, the stations were careful in their coverage of violence, were not perceived to have taken sides in their coverage and had a much higher score than the rest of the media. Above all, the community radio stations were themselves victims of the violence. The study concludes that there seemed to have been little elaboration and oversight of the values of democracy in broadcasts during the pre-election period by the Kenyan media except the longer established community radio station of Mang’elete. An interpretation is made that as it builds up a culture of participation in programming, the values of a democratic dispensation are an important category of hormones. The expectation of the study was that internalization of democratic values would have forestalled the widespread violence and hatred that would result to the taking of life of another human being for voting differently. Again the study interprets this as part of a seeming inability of the Kenyan media to sense the building up depths of the people. The Kenyan media was caught by surprise. Perhaps, Maendeleo Community radio which opted to keep out of the political events in total during the pre-election campaign had a correct barometer reading of the cumulus permutations within its own locus. Similarly, another finding is the apparent ability by the Kenyan community radio stations to very quickly earn favour with listeners in a field with other aggressive players.