A New Direction For Ghanaian Journalism 3

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• another Perscoba 11 years ago

  TOO TIMID TO ASK QUESTIONS..TO SOFT TO PROBE..TOO AFRAID AND INCOHERENT TO CHECK FACTS AND OR INVESTIGATE. Consider the fact that the NDC preportedly had stuck billions og Ghana;s money in Brzillian bancks since rawllings ...
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  TOO TIMID TO ASK QUESTIONS..TO SOFT TO PROBE..TOO AFRAID AND INCOHERENT TO CHECK FACTS AND OR INVESTIGATE. Consider the fact that the NDC preportedly had stuck billions og Ghana;s money in Brzillian bancks since rawllings coup .Who would investigate this? A bold journalist must stand up and dedicate himself to seeking the truth.

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• Fall Back Tyme 11 years ago

  Please, can you elucidate further on these three points?
  
  What do you mean by, "a world full of hostile surprises, of the glimmer of political and religious shysterism!"?
  
  And in Ghana for that matter?
  
  
  You also state ...
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  Please, can you elucidate further on these three points?
  
  What do you mean by, "a world full of hostile surprises, of the glimmer of political and religious shysterism!"?
  
  And in Ghana for that matter?
  
  
  You also stated, " Whoever owns information and also monopolizes access to that information has power, real power, as information has always defined power relations between nation-states and among men.?
  
  Please can you expatiate more lucidly?
  
  Finally, how do we transform the Ghanian media landscape in terms of scientific objectivity through the "trilogy of transparency, verifiability, and reproducibility in the first place to undertake the analytic archeology of transformational overhaul in the journalism industry"?
  
  
  And can the print media survive the internet?
  
  Just asking....

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• francis kwarteng 11 years ago

  Dear reader,
  
  Thanks for your patience. Let me attempt to answer your questions (please recall that I have dealt with these questions sparingly in Parts 1 & 2. There are more examples I will give in the Ghanaian context in ...
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  Dear reader,
  
  Thanks for your patience. Let me attempt to answer your questions (please recall that I have dealt with these questions sparingly in Parts 1 & 2. There are more examples I will give in the Ghanaian context in later installments):
  
  Q: What do you mean by, "a world full of hostile surprises, of the glimmer of political and religious shysterism!"?
  
  A: I was simply referring to diversity of ideas, particularly ideas of a contrarian nature. The second part refers to the situation where a politician or a religious figure, a charlatant of course, sometimes capitalize on his or her seeming "charismatic authority" to deceive or dupe gullible people.
  
  Q: And in Ghana for that matter?
  
  A: One example to explain this is the controversy surrounding the NSS corruption scandal. The board of directors submitted a formal report to the BNI to investigate their well-founded suspisions of financial mismanagement and stealing going on in the Secretariat. The public later got the impression that everything was okay at the Secretariat until pressure on the BNI from some powerful quarters forced the BNI to revisit the case. We also have the muted controversy surrounding the Bank of Ghana/Ghana Statistical Service and the IMF/World Band on the question of Ghana's debt-GDP ratio. Many still are not in the clear as to might be telling the truth or lying.
  
  Q: You also stated, " Whoever owns information and also monopolizes access to that information has power, real power, as information has always defined power relations between nation-states and among men?
  
  A: Let me explain through examples. My New York Sudanese friend, a 70-plus man who sought political asylum in Sudan because he and others tried to overthrow Omar Al-Bashir, once told me how the British used to pay them pittance to help (the British) dig sand in certain localities in Sudan which were then shipped off to England. And they the Sudanese insulted the British for sending Sudanese sand to Britain at a great cost. It would later take the Sudanese people to realize that the sand were gold ore. It was too late by then. The British no longer controlled Sudan. Thus, the British had vital information about the mineral of Sudan which the people were not privy to. That knowledge made the British richer, the Sudanese poorer. And the wealth made British colonialism stronger. Because the British had more money to buy or manufacture weapons which could be used to subdue the Sudanese people. Racism, slavery, colonialism, etc., were all power relations based on information and access to information.
  
  Q: Finally, how do we transform the Ghanian media landscape in terms of scientific objectivity through the "trilogy of transparency, verifiability, and reproducibility in the first place to undertake the analytic archeology of transformational overhaul in the journalism industry"?
  
  A: I have dealt with this question in Part 4 (let us wait and see what I and others have to say).
  
  Q: And can the print media survive the internet?
  
  A: Possibly. The fear is there but I believe the print media can survive the internet in Africa and other less developed parts of the world (Asia, South America, Central America). Access to internet services is a huge proplem in these parts of the world.
  
  Insufficient power (power outage) makes access and operation of internet services in Ghana, let us mention just one African country, problematic. Computers are still relatively expensive for most Africans. And many people don't even know how to use the computer (look at our villages, etc). We need to wait and see what happens to your question. On the other hand media experts have said predicted that the print media is here to stay (at least not disappearing any time soon. I have read some technical papers on this question and will provide references later).
  
  I hope these answers suffice. Please overlook my many errors (because I did not proofread my responses).
  
  Thanks again for reading. I enjoyed reading and answering your questions. Do read Part 4.
  
  Thanks.

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• ADJOA WANGARA 11 years ago

  Long last, the bragart Kwarteng has started an input of sense in his 4-squared head and minimising his instant dictionary applied gargantun useless words it as only left for novice to shorten his prosecution statements and wr ...
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  Long last, the bragart Kwarteng has started an input of sense in his 4-squared head and minimising his instant dictionary applied gargantun useless words it as only left for novice to shorten his prosecution statements and write simple sense making, non-tribal, non-partisan and educative inpacted articles.
  
  I however congratulate the "water filled head" Kwarteng for his commencement to reasoning in a more social direction.

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