Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism

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• ADJOA WANGRA 11 years ago

  Kwarteng! You keep on selecting unrelated different paragraph topics to form your compositions which usually at the make an input of nonsense even apart from the fact that you write enless crap.
  
  In effect your whole weed ...
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  Kwarteng! You keep on selecting unrelated different paragraph topics to form your compositions which usually at the make an input of nonsense even apart from the fact that you write enless crap.
  
  In effect your whole weed carries no weight you have only occupied a precious space which could have being used by a reasonable columnist or at least for a commom useful advertisement. It is therefore a deviated useless article, you are not making sense in any way.

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• Prof Lungu 11 years ago

  ADJOA WANGRA,
  Regretfully, we must say that the only, partly "sensible" section of your comments relates to your finale, "...It is therefore a deviated useless article, you are not making sense in any way."
  
  Can't we try t ...
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  ADJOA WANGRA,
  Regretfully, we must say that the only, partly "sensible" section of your comments relates to your finale, "...It is therefore a deviated useless article, you are not making sense in any way."
  
  Can't we try to encourage and critically assess?

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• francis kwarteng 11 years ago

  Dear Prof. Lungu,
  
  I just read your response Adjoa Wangara.
  
  In fact Adjoa Wangara is not the kind of person to "encourage" or "critcally assess" a writer. You, Prof. Lungu, should be teaching him what "encourage' and "c ...
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  Dear Prof. Lungu,
  
  I just read your response Adjoa Wangara.
  
  In fact Adjoa Wangara is not the kind of person to "encourage" or "critcally assess" a writer. You, Prof. Lungu, should be teaching him what "encourage' and "critically assess" mean!
  
  As well, my niece (9-year-old) reads Adjoa Wangara's comments and asks me whether he's in high school. My niece is in Grade 4.
  
  I have never taken Adjoa Wangara serious because he has never understood anything I have written. Any critical thinker will just give examples where the article does not make sense and, I, the writer, will explain myself to him.
  
  Even you, Prof. Lungu, failed to point out where you agree with Adjoa Wangara, an uncritical reader for that matter, in areas where the article shows "deviated uselessness." I will then explain to you both where your misplaced confusions lie.
  
  Give me just one example. I believe you should be encouraging and critically assessing each other. Don't say things you have no ideas about. Give examples and allow me to place you where you belong.
  
  Thanks.

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• Prof Lungu 11 years ago

  FYI....
  
  "....'partly "sensible" section' does not include "deviated uselessness."
  
  I believe you totally mis-read my comment on this one.

  FYI....
  
  "....'partly "sensible" section' does not include "deviated uselessness."
  
  I believe you totally mis-read my comment on this one.

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• francis kwarteng 11 years ago

  Dear Prof. Lungu,
  
  This is what you wrote:
  
  Regretfully, we must say that the only, partly "sensible" section of your comments relates to your finale, "...It is therefore a deviated useless article, you are not making se ...
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  Dear Prof. Lungu,
  
  This is what you wrote:
  
  Regretfully, we must say that the only, partly "sensible" section of your comments relates to your finale, "...It is therefore a deviated useless article, you are not making sense in any way."
  
  Can't we try to encourage and critically assess?
  
  .....................................
  
  My comments:
  
  Did you re-read your word "finale" in your response to Adjoa Wangara?
  
  What is "sensible" about what Adjoa Wangara wrote?
  
  Indeed, I have not seen any statement by Adjoa Wangara that is sensible on this platform. I have told him he is clueless and childish. It is why I don't respond to his comments.
  
  In fact, I give my 9-year-old niece the chance to read Adjoa Wangara's comments whenever I post my articles on Ghanaweb. My niece thinks Adjoa Wangara is in high school. Like I said before, she is in Grade 4.
  
  Do you expect me to take Adjoa Wangara serious? Hell no! You should have known by now that he's not a critical reader. Neither does he grasp complicated ideas (I don't mean this as an insult). The guy is a joker!
  
  I do read all his comments, though. Unfortunately they have never had impact on my thinking and my writing style. In other words, I read him merely for fun!
  
  Thanks.

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• Nana 11 years ago

  Certainly, multidisciplinary baptism of journalists
  in the accommodating fire of critical thinking
  where they are didactically exposed to the wide
  range of research possibilities can fill up the
  pinioned hiatuses in the s ...
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  Certainly, multidisciplinary baptism of journalists
  in the accommodating fire of critical thinking
  where they are didactically exposed to the wide
  range of research possibilities can fill up the
  pinioned hiatuses in the span of their knowledge
  inventories prior to enlisting in a journalism, mass
  communication, or public relations program, for
  today’s world is too complex to submit to a
  comical look of uncritical askance through the
  emotional microscope of human intellectual
  inadequacies. Mr kwarteng, can you simply tell me the what you meant in those lines?

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• Solomon Dormenyo Quist 11 years ago

  Nana I could not help smiling when I read your input as it reminded me of a symposium I attended somewhere in the world. This was for farmers and at the end of the key-note address by a learned agriculturalist, one of the par ...
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  Nana I could not help smiling when I read your input as it reminded me of a symposium I attended somewhere in the world. This was for farmers and at the end of the key-note address by a learned agriculturalist, one of the participants turned to me to inquire what the heck was said during the odd 60 plus minutes and all I could say was that, the theme was on agriculture because the expert stringed around words that could make an Englishman weep out of jealousy.

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• francis kwarteng 11 years ago

  Dear readers,
  
  Good day.
  
  This is Part 2 of the series "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism."
  
  I am not too certain what happened to the number "2."
  
  In any case I shall conclude the series with Parts 3/Part 4. ...
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  Dear readers,
  
  Good day.
  
  This is Part 2 of the series "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism."
  
  I am not too certain what happened to the number "2."
  
  In any case I shall conclude the series with Parts 3/Part 4.
  
  Stay tuned for more. Have a great weekend.
  
  Thanks for reading!

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• Prof Lungu 11 years ago

  Fair enough!
  
  Let's agree Ghanaian journalist need a great amount of critical thinking skills!
  
  And let's also agree that "Standard of living, quality of life, and equality are three of such indices. This is not what Gha ...
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  Fair enough!
  
  Let's agree Ghanaian journalist need a great amount of critical thinking skills!
  
  And let's also agree that "Standard of living, quality of life, and equality are three of such indices. This is not what Ghanaian journalism is generally asking for....Ghanaian journalists have a responsibility...educating the general public and policy makers on...important public health questions....(that)...This is actually what well-informed, conscientious, and professional journalists do, defending human rights, social justice, judicial fairness, human dignity, and so on. "
  
  Can't we say the same about Ghanaian lawyers?
  
  Can't we say the same about the Ghanaian academies?
  
  What other sectors of Ghanaian life can escape this indictment giving the failure of politicians (i.e. "policy makers")?
  
  ITEM: We think that it is a remarkably tall order to ask Ghanaian "journalists" to shoulder so much of the anti-corruption fight. For obvious reasons we cannot reliably, totally, rely on media owned/controlled by the government, nor can we rely on media owned/controlled by private interests who are in the "profit and loss business", to whom "journalists" must report.
  
  ITEM: Many of our politicians are illiterate, have no concept of science and scientific analyses, have no vision appropriate for this information and knowledge-dependent economy, have a poor opinion of women in general who constitute more than 50% of Ghana's "development potential", and have little to no experience running bureaus or profitable businesses that are free and clear of corruption and nepotism.

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• francis kwarteng 11 years ago

  Dear Brother,
  
  Thanks for your constructive contribution.
  
  Parts 3/4 address your reservations. These have been written already, the same day as I sent in this very essay for publication. Usually I take extra time to ver ...
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  Dear Brother,
  
  Thanks for your constructive contribution.
  
  Parts 3/4 address your reservations. These have been written already, the same day as I sent in this very essay for publication. Usually I take extra time to verify my sources. Expect your reservations addressed in those two remaining parts (In the meantime you can go back to some of my earlier essays where I address all the issues you raise here).
  
  Besides, I have deal with your reservations in other essays here on Ghanaweb and elsewhere.
  
  Let me be more specific: I have dealt with our academics, the judiciary, parliament, teachers, etc etc. This time around I chose to deal specifically with our journalists (though I generally extend the discussion in Parts 3/4 to the Ghanaian society).
  
  All errors are mine.
  
  Thanks.

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• Prof Lungu 11 years ago

  I hear you!
  
  Maybe, in a multi-part essay, we want to provide a brief summary of the entire essay in each sub-part, at the head (or at bottom/Note).
  
  Imagine your reader has just 1 chance to read your essay, but might be ...
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  I hear you!
  
  Maybe, in a multi-part essay, we want to provide a brief summary of the entire essay in each sub-part, at the head (or at bottom/Note).
  
  Imagine your reader has just 1 chance to read your essay, but might be inclined to double-back, with the right "teaser(s)".
  
  In that spirit, I may "double-back" to read the previous parts, and will wait to read the next!
  
  Greetings!

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• francis kwarteng 11 years ago

  Dear Brother Lungu,
  
  I labeled the first installment "1."
  
  I labeled the sequel "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism 2." I don't know what happened to the number "2."
  
  I consequently wrote to the editor yesterda ...
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  Dear Brother Lungu,
  
  I labeled the first installment "1."
  
  I labeled the sequel "Our Final Thoughts On Ghanaian Journalism 2." I don't know what happened to the number "2."
  
  I consequently wrote to the editor yesterday when I saw that the title did not reflect the number "2." You can find out from Akoto, the editor. You could blame the editor, not me!
  
  Besides, I don't have to indicate anywhere of incoming installents. One a reader sees an article has the "1" he should expect "2."
  
  A reader who sees a article with the humber "3" should expect a sequel with the number "4," and so on. This is just common sense.
  
  And I always end my series with "End" or "End of series."
  
  Please keep in mind that it is not children I target my articles at on Ghanaweb to read. I believe anyone who comes to Ghanaweb to read is mature.
  
  Therefore, I don't expect a writer to tell me whether he or she has installments to publish when I see "1," "2", or three attached to his articles, and I get confused. Just seeing "1" alone tells me he or she has "2" in mind.
  
  Unless the writer tells me otherwise. No single reader I have through modernghana has had this kinds of problems. Not even those I have met Spyghana! It is always Ghanaweb. I don't know why it is so.
  
  All errors are mine (I hardly proofread my comments).
  
  Thanks.

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• ADJOA WANGARA 11 years ago

  Kwarteng you better stop blowing your own horns over there in United Kingdom, even though you claim to be in the UK you have not learnt anything sensible.
  
  All what you have been doing is to write for writing sake, making ...
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  Kwarteng you better stop blowing your own horns over there in United Kingdom, even though you claim to be in the UK you have not learnt anything sensible.
  
  All what you have been doing is to write for writing sake, making numerous refrences from the dictionary for big words, and even that, you still coin the words in your own way by using all your big words in adjective forms which in the end render your whole essay useless and senseless.
  
  Any reasonable person who critically or seriously reads your amalgamated paragraphs will bear me out that your cogitation faculty is dented. Simple for you to understand, you don't make sense.

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• francis kwarteng 11 years ago

  Adjoa Wangara,
  
  Which part of the UK do I live?
  
  My 9-year-old could not control her laughter after reading you again.
  
  I called her to read your comment where you said I live in the UK!
  
  Again, which part of the UK ...
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  Adjoa Wangara,
  
  Which part of the UK do I live?
  
  My 9-year-old could not control her laughter after reading you again.
  
  I called her to read your comment where you said I live in the UK!
  
  Again, which part of the UK do I live in? I guess you are having fun on Ghanaweb as my niece is having fun watching cartoons when I called her to come read your comment!
  
  Have a great weekend!

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• ADJOA WANGARA 11 years ago

  Kwarteng, to hell where ever you may be, it doesn't make any difference because you have under no circumstance emancipated. You are anti-culture and you can hardly wear a thinking and reasoning cap.

  Kwarteng, to hell where ever you may be, it doesn't make any difference because you have under no circumstance emancipated. You are anti-culture and you can hardly wear a thinking and reasoning cap.

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