...refuses to highlighht Mills govt's 15-month success so far
...as the Editor, Ransford Tetteh, continues his anti-NDC agenda
Ransford Tetteh, Editor of the “Daily Graphic” has sabotaged the Mills
government once again by refusing to put on the front page of the paper, the success
story of the Mills Administration fifteen months into office.
On Thursday, April 7, 2010, the Minister of Information, John Tia Akologo, at a
press conference revealed the success story of the Mills government the past fifteen
months. Among the success story are the creation of 1.5 million jobs, the drop in
inflation to 14.23%, the defraying of TOR's debt by GH¢450million, the drop in
interest rate to 16%, and the positive strides in the field of agriculture.
Many Ghanaians woke up the next day expecting this major story on the front page of
the state-owned newspaper. But lo and behold, the Daily Graphic did not deem it fit
to put the story on its front page where it would be seen by Ghanaians and reviewed
by the electronic media: instead, it was buried in the middle page!
“Of course, this story cannot be on the front page of the Graphic while Ransford
is editor as it would give political advantage to the NDC against his party, the
NPP. What were you expecting?” a source at the Daily Graphic told the Daily Post.
Ransford Tetteh, who is a thorough bred NPP apparatchik, has obviously taken
President Mills's leniency to be his weakness by pandering to the whims and caprices
of his political godfathers in the NPP instead of helping the ruling government to
achieve its aim of realising a BETTER GHANA.
When the NPP held its Delegates' Conference at Kumasi recently, Ransford Tetteh
quickly gave it the front page banner headline, an action that indicates that as far
as he was concerned, the outcome of the delegates' conference of the NPP is far more
important than the success story of the ruling government.
This is not the first time that he has demonstrably shown his bias by refusing to
use a major story that favours the government on its front page and the trend is set
to continue.
During the first four years of the NPP in government, Yaw Ayeboafo who was then the
Editor of the Daily Graphic virtually used the paper to help highlight government
programmes. His bias against the NDC was exposed when more than a week before
Ghanaians went to the polls on December 7, 2004, he had had the front page of the
Daily Graphic already neatly designed declaring Kufuor victorious.
The NDC has failed to break the NPP's monopoly of the Daily Graphic which is said to
be suffering from dwindling fortunes in recent times. Randsford Tetteh and the NPP
will continue to have a field's day and the NDC will continue to have bad or no
publicity until the party wakes up to the reality that politics is not a “father
for all” business.
Stay tuned.
