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Minister goes berserk; calls journalists lazy and arm chair practitioners

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  • Freddy k 6 years ago

    Hahaha. Ajeiiiii

  • Freddy k 6 years ago

    Ahhh minister but of course there are equally good journalists.

  • Zoobe-Zoobe 6 years ago

    sad

  • insight to the bone 6 years ago

    The ideology of the ndc is a reflection and manifestation of pepeni/ayigbe alliance of the destruction of Akanland values and colonization of Ghana for their personal gain. Bawumia is a thief and a liar , what innovative plan ...
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  • Kwadaso 6 years ago

    Ghanaian journalists and media houses are among the laziest in Africa.The Minister was right to point it out.Even if an incident occurs 100meters from their Offices they will rather wait for other foreign media to report it t ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 6 years ago

    Eeeeh Mr. Minister! Suddenly, the journalists are the armchair type, huh? Waren't these same armchair journalists the ones telling all sorts of lies about the previous government to your delight? What a shameless bunch these ...
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  • Prince Charles 6 years ago

    You got a point, but that is why he is insulting them, because he knows who they are, so no love lost.

  • Old Soldier 6 years ago

    Did he really said that. going to meet some white men? OMG Benito has turned into a Coon.

  • Essum 6 years ago

    The truth is always bitter. The Minister is right through and through. What prevents the radio station to have reporter around the country to feed it with current news. How can the minister provide answers when he was not the ...
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  • God sent 6 years ago

    Well said Mr . honourable.
    Take note Kwame Sefa Kaye, all you do is sit on your backside interviewing Ken Agyapong and Alhaji Bature all the
    time.

  • TOM MBOYA 6 years ago

    God Sent stop lying. Kwame SEFA KAYI has never interviewed Alhaji Bature before. Learn to be sensible and speak the truth. Why are some Ghanaians full of shit and piss? Nkwasiaasem

  • Uche 6 years ago

    He actually meant KABA.

  • Kwesi 6 years ago

    Newsgh. The minister said this couple months ago.Why you published the same story as of it happen yesterday .Fake journalist.

  • Joe 6 years ago

    The truth is not always pleasant but needs to be said anyhow! Thank u mr minister, I salute you!

  • Jkmo 6 years ago

    Interesting the kitchen is getting hot for the competent angels

  • nokware 6 years ago

    Thank you minister for telling journalists in Ghana the truth.They are truly lazy,armchair and write bad English.

  • agyeman 6 years ago

    THE MINISTER IS 100% RIGHT. THE PHONE CALLS BY RADIO PRESENTERS IS JUST ONE TOO MANY. INDEED SENDING THEIR NUMEROUS OFTEN DRUNK REPORTERS TO GET INFORMATION IS COMPLETELY MISSING IN ALMOST ALL THE RADIO STATIONS. MR. BIO THAN ...
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  • kkk 6 years ago

    he is saying the truth but some ghanaians will take it as an insult

  • mohammed 6 years ago

    Thank you minister, yes you are right Ghana journalist are lazy, thank you hon they should go out and dig they own information you are right

  • Kq 6 years ago

    Mr Minister, this is hasty generalisation and shortsighted comment. Note that, not all Journalists are inherently lazy as you think and spew out loosely. Don't create unnecessary apathy for this government,Mr Baby face.

  • Kq 6 years ago

    Mr Minister, this is hasty generalisation and shortsighted comment. Note that, not all Journalists are inherently lazy as you think and spew out loosely. Don't create unnecessary apathy for this government,Mr Baby face. Why d ...
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  • joe 6 years ago

    When they were campaigning why didn't he say so,they were rather chasing journalists to publish trash against prez mahama.Ingrate Npp people

  • Aefong george 6 years ago

    Excellently true, most journalist in Ghana are lazy

  • nby 6 years ago

    Benito , you now call them lazy? When Ken Ashbey and kwame Sefa Kai were given you false stories on small scale mining u were happy. Now he is ttelling u guys are ignorant.

  • Kofi 6 years ago

    Find out for yourself what is on the ground if you want to be credible!

  • Kwaa 6 years ago

    For most Ghanaians,to tell them the truth means you are insulting them.
    If the Minister tells Journalists to seek on the spot information,is that an insult?

  • Big Boy 6 years ago

    Hahaha ajeeiiiiiiii ,this is the men and women Nana Addo have?

  • John 6 years ago

    But is he not right? Some journalists in the country are more than gossips by practice. They should go to the core and find the reality before asking questions

  • Marcus Chris Lawson 6 years ago

    I share the sentiments of the minister

    Gone were the days in the 80's when journalism was fact finding venture and you trust your pen to describe what has been seen and verified.

    Today, the shambolic manner some of thes ...
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  • Prince Charles 6 years ago

    Much as I disagree with anybody chastising journalists, I tend to agree with his assertion that Ghanaian journalists are very lazy people. When I was practicing journalism in the 70s both in Ghana and Nigeria, I was always o ...
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  • ogyam 6 years ago

    Change has come journalist are now lazy. Npp for you

  • kb 6 years ago

    it will help in intellectual discourse if we analyze issues devoid of polithinking

  • sluggard man 6 years ago

    Very very true.Why can't our Journalists go out there to bring us the info. First of all,there is no town in the Wasa area there called Nsuta-Prestea.Nsuta is not the same town as Prestea. The distance between the two is over ...
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  • BODY GAY. 6 years ago

    Ghanaian journalists are lazy and corrupt. They sit in their studios talking rubbish. Look at the nature of Ghanaian roads and streets and yet no journalist is brave enough to talk about it. During NDC era they were followin ...
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  • KSK 6 years ago

    Minister, you are right. Journalists from the Multimedia Group always move to the action spot to report. Don't mine these lazy, liars journalists. Most international media houses move thousands of miles to cover events but s ...
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  • kitiki 6 years ago

    What is so special about WHITE MEN, Mr. Minister? Do you have to mention your impending meeting with white men in the conversation?

    By the way, his face doesn't look Ghanaian!

  • NKF 6 years ago

    As a minister u need to respond to issues. You can excuse yourself from making comments on the show. These journalist feeds on the info from other sources, you are to clarify the issues since state agencies are briefing you. ...
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  • GHANAMAN THE REAL 6 years ago

    .... GAVE THE STICK TO THESE LAZY ARMCHAIR SO CALLED RADIO JOURNALISTS!!!! Why call the Minister for info about the number of casualties at this disaster site when you as a journalist should be at the site providing us with i ...
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  • AGYEI, SUNYANI 6 years ago

    What is insulting about the Minister's comment? He hit the nail right on its head. The "interview journalism" leads to rumours and speculation, with stories often couched in "unconfirmed sources" or "our reliable source" s ...
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  • Mj 6 years ago

    Akufo Addo himself, in a speech read for him at a function this year, said Ghanaian journalists are reckless; are u therefore surprised to hear his appointee insult Journalists. Interesting times ahead

  • Wiseman 6 years ago

    A lier like you, which speech read for Akofu Addo did he insult journalists.? Stop this foolishness.

  • EFO 6 years ago

    Re:Minister goes berserk. I think the minister is very right. Some of the journalists are lazy and not objective. Examples are:Kwame Sefa Kayi,Kwasi Aboagye and KABA just to mention a few.

  • EFO 6 years ago

    The minister is very right. Examples are Kwame Sefa Kayi,Kwasi Aboagye and KABA just to mention a few.

  • Awudu 6 years ago

    Mr,Minister the truth hate but must be told they are lazier than the word lazy . #lazyjournalistmuststop

  • Tetteh 6 years ago

    should have been Minister goes ballistic.goes berserk is frenziedly violent or destructive the guy did non of that that

  • BB 6 years ago

    The minister is 100% right and sometimes the arrogance of some of them hhhmmm

  • James 6 years ago

    You are right BB. Arrogance at it highest.

  • James 6 years ago

    Well said Honourable. Come to Cape Coast and you will meet the most laziests among them here. Especially presenters at so called Cape FM

  • Kobby 6 years ago

    The minister never said he cannot to speak to lazy journalists. Shame on you ghanaweb. I listened to that program

  • KK 6 years ago

    This man was in Australia recently after been late to a meeting by about 2 hours ($100 wage lost on my job) he had the nerve to tell us he was having fufu (fufu mp, shame). He was so disrespful to the extend that he was not r ...
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  • africaNyame 6 years ago

    The minister is suggesting something laudable. Learn from it and improve upon the style of journalism and reporting in the country. To encourage people to insult others is not the best. Please wake up and be part in search of ...
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  • B. Kwateng 6 years ago

    I like this minister. He spoke his mind and what he said is the absolute truth. Journalist must go and get us first hand info rather than depending on garnished info from politicians

  • babs sayibu 6 years ago

    l supported the minister

  • Franklin Amankwatia 6 years ago

    I think Hon Bio is very right.
    Our journalists should go out to the field and seek answers that they would expect their audience to seek answers to instead of sitting behind their consoles. They should take a cue from the b ...
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  • Alhaji Yussif 6 years ago

    Yes that's is the case,this days journalism has been made so cheap,all they do is sit in their studios and ask silly questions?now just wait and see how they ll twist this and make an issue out of it,they ll even describe him ...
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  • Onipanua 6 years ago

    Npp.. and their ministers think all Ghanaians are fools... As a minister it is ur duty to provide the public with the latest updates on issues concerning ur sector. He the minister is rather the lazy one.. He has no informat ...
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  • KWABENA 6 years ago

    the minister should be congratulated for calling a spade a spade. The truth remains that about 95% of journalist in Ghana are lazy and have low capacity. TRUTH IS TRUTH

  • ODASENI 6 years ago

    Minister you have hit the nail right on the head. Lazy journalist indeed!!!

  • Ata yaw 6 years ago

    That's true Ghanaian journalists are lazy period.

  • J.B WEMAH 6 years ago

    Our Journalist are really very very unprofessional. They talk too much. They are interesting in collecting payola instead of doing their work

  • inercycl 6 years ago

    Journalists in Ghana don't go out and look for information.They only report on what they hear on the phone.The deputy minister is not an investigator to know what happened or how many perished.Investigators are on site and jo ...
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  • ghanason 6 years ago

    Journalists in this country are rumormongers. Period!!!!! Most of them are indeed lazy and only latch on hearsay to confuse people.

  • nAmE@# 6 years ago

    "I have very important meetings with some white men now” Did he actually say this? Is he implying the "white men" are better than his own country men and women??

    Although he goofed at his last submission, he was on point ...
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  • Kwabena Gyamfi 6 years ago

    I back the minister 100%. Some of these so-called journalists are imbeciles, lazy and uneducated. They ask too many stupid questions.

  • JOHN NAAMI 6 years ago

    The minister is right. Some Journalist are too lazy to go out for credible information. They sit in the comfort of their studios looking for scape goats. Yes I agree that you can verify some information through phone calls, b ...
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  • Educationist 6 years ago

    Very good for the Minister to say it.