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Ghanaian media under fire for unprofessional conduct

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  • Agya 8 years ago

    It is a shame Mr. Jon Benjamin should champion this cause. Where is the national media commission? They should aggressively be tackling this canker. Also some media seem to provide platforms to only certain political parti ...
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  • Benoit Kalala 8 years ago

    That is how messy the whole situation has become in our country. So far as our MPs can get the allowances to buy expensive four wheel drives, nothing is important to them.

    Yaka Gbemei

  • Nokware_ Asa 8 years ago

    I can say without the fear of contradiction that, if the High Commissioner understood half of the stuff that passes for journalism on many of our local FM stations, then he would be thoroughly disappointed.
    Listen to the two ...
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  • Nokware_ Asa 8 years ago

    I can say without the fear of contradiction that, if the High Commissioner understood half of the stuff that passes for journalism on many of our local FM stations, then he would be thoroughly disappointed.
    Listen to the two ...
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  • Nokware_ Asa 8 years ago

    I can say without the fear of contradiction that, if the High Commissioner understood half of the stuff that passes for journalism on many of our local FM stations, then he would be thoroughly disappointed.
    Listen to the two ...
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  • Larry, Larry 8 years ago

    Our media has not been spared of the corruption bug that has eaten deeply into the our moral fabric. Today, things that were seen to be wrong just a few years ago are now being discussed and approved with justification. We ar ...
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  • Martin 8 years ago

    No, you are wrong. In the West, the media does not receive any brides to look the other way, while companies like BP exploit African countries.There is what is known as credibility and integrity, which are nonexistent in Ghan ...
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  • Straight Shooter 8 years ago

    The High Commissioner is 100% right . Some of the radio news casters use some raw languages which will get them sanctioned in other countries.

  • White 8 years ago

    Thanks. Very well than. Always white people. If ....

  • Kweku 8 years ago

    Always the British would lecture us about issues of which theirs are bigger. Why the BBC and other western media hardly reporting or exposing multinational, supranational, IMF, etc exploiting and destroying African national e ...
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  • Abbas 8 years ago

    spot on. well said

  • All Die Be Die 8 years ago

    Contrary to the screaming headline of Mrs. Betty Maud saying she is sad she is an Asante,as presented below by starfmonline, the body of the main news item never mentions any sadness; it rather says "pained". Is sadness and p ...
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  • socrettis wisdom 8 years ago

    they love money too much. if Benjamine list the names of these shameful journalists no body will tell you that they are "yaanom*

  • Joe Turkey 8 years ago

    I am not insensitive to the family and friends of Komla Dumor but I am at a loss about all the Komla Dumor ballyhoo. If good journalism is about excellence and "focus on the quest for factual details through research, passion ...
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  • Owuo mpo soro 8 years ago

    U are incredibly smart and direct about dumor being part of the Ghanaian media had it not been bbc on his resume.Although a nice guy,I believe kobla was somehow overrated,Joe turkey.

  • Ebibiman 8 years ago

    I don't understand shit.

  • kanga 8 years ago

    They are corrupt, to the core, nokofio journalist, we have in Ghana pressmen who are more concern of trivial stories. Thank you Mr Ambassador, telling these cheap clowns parading themselves as journalist what their job descr ...
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  • I Say 8 years ago

    Kanga, hopefully u watch and read world news from time to time. If you do, then you have forgotten about journalists at Sun newspaper owned by rupert murdoch. That woman rebecca brooks is back after the high level crimes com ...
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  • NII 8 years ago

    IT WILL ALWAYS TAKE THE WHITE MAN TO CLEAN US. WE DON'T KNOW SHIT YET WE BEHAVE LIKE THE CHOSEN ONES. WE ARE THE MOST CORRUPT HUMANS ON EARTH. OH GHANA, WE ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER. WE RECEIVE MONEY TO ELECT POLITICIAN ...
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  • DDT 8 years ago

    When you travel outside the country and come back, you will realised that in Ghana we have only 2 percent of professional journalist in the country.

  • AGYAAKU 8 years ago

    What can we say or do about those journalists who get sponsored for only a couple of days in some European countries, come back and START behaving as AGENTS of the opposition party. Just WATCH and follow those four or so who ...
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  • Kwaku 8 years ago

    Mr. Benjamin, most ghanaian journalists came from under odum trees in short from the forest. They see anything the take picture even shit. Village journalists

  • Saint truimph 8 years ago

    The man should just shut up if he has nothing to say. He cannot tell us how we should run our things. Just like they have their style like robots, we run ours like humans.

  • Jalil SA 8 years ago

    If you have moral conscience you will be ashamed of your comments. The gentleman is just telling most of our half baked journalists to be ethical and professional on their job. Taking soli makes you denounce you neutrality on ...
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  • Linton Kwesi 8 years ago

    And what makes you this his journalists dont take soli?

  • Nun 8 years ago

    Typical that you attack the messenger rather than doing something about the message. Show me where the ambassador is wrong.

  • TA 8 years ago

    Jon B. did not attest to reading the nuances of Ghanian journalism. Thus he callously assails righteous heroes. Who can hide the pain when so little is done?

  • Nun 8 years ago

    Sad that we needed a foreign ambassador to point out this. All what we do for many years is to argue over a stupid register for criminal politicians to come to power and spend our money the way they want it. When are going to ...
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  • DAGARA PRIDE 8 years ago

    Amen Mr. Benjamin. Let the truth prevail. The media in the north particularly is very selective on reporting issues of major concern to the people. There are a lot of rotten chiefs in the north that should go to Nsawam for th ...
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  • KOJO ENNING-ROTTERDAM 8 years ago

    LIVE THEM PEOPLE.TWEEAAAA

  • obour germany 8 years ago

    Hey dont tall bushet ok!

  • Felicia Uk 8 years ago

    I remember reading an article by Kwame Sefa Kayi during the circle incident.He stated how bizarre it was to show the naked bodies of the dead.Am sad that our high commissioner has picked it up.Shameful!!!!

  • Abbas 8 years ago

    What is he talking about? They show images on UK screens and all over the world. They still show dead bodies from the War and other events. USA show live shootings? They showed the Jim Jones disaster with bloated bodies. Just ...
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  • crank 8 years ago

    I LOVE THIS GUY. HE NAILED IT. AND SOME OF THESE RADIO STATIONS WILL BE PLAYING SOME STUPID JARGONS WHEN SERIOUS PROGRAMS ARE BEING PRESENTED. THANK YOU MR BENJAMIN.

  • simmons 8 years ago

    commissioner you are right but GIJ school gives out good training to the student as a professional and international standard. the problem lies between salaries and selfishness. Supervision is less to count.Now people are usi ...
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  • Makosa 8 years ago

    Thumbs up Mr High Commissioner. The whole system has become very corrupt. And the journalists have their necks deep in it. Anas please work on your colleagues as well

  • G. K. Berko 8 years ago

    Where was 'Jon Ben' when our Telecoms was allegedly sold to Vodafone, with prior bribing of some MPs to allow the deal to succeed? Is it only Journalists that need to be shamed for corruption? Or, the British High Commission ...
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  • Teiko 8 years ago

    You stupid fool!!! If you do not put your house in order someone will come take it over and take credence!! Weas Ghanaians should put our house in order before we go around begging.The donor will always call the shots!!!to ou ...
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  • KOFI DARKO 8 years ago

    A, HA, HA, HA, AAAAAAAAAAAA! WHAT IS NEW? WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM SUCH PRODUCTS FROM A MEDIOCRE INSTITUTION WHERE SADLY, THEY HIGH THE IRRESPONSIBLE, UNTRAINED, PEOPLE WHO CANNOT THINK BEYOND THEIR NOSES, EXHIBIT DISRESPECT F ...
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  • kpakpil 8 years ago

    EXACTLY THE PROBLEM SOME OF US HAVE. WE HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THIS AND MANY MORE ACROSS THE SPECTRUM ALL ALONG BUT ONLY WANT THE WHITEMAN TO REPEAT IT THEN BE WAKEUP. SHAME UNTO US

  • Joe,london 8 years ago

    So many journalists in Ghana are crap.They are uselessly useless.

  • Papa abaka 8 years ago

    I hope rev martey and the likes are listening

  • Nana K 8 years ago

    Bahm!!!! The man has said it all hitting the nails right on the head.

  • BONGO BONGO 8 years ago

    'Exposed to graphic images of recently dead bodies, published without care for their privacy or the grief of their families'.
    I have often wondered why these are shown so graphically. Where is the ethics in their profession ...
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