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[N] As Majority Leader be circumspect with your utterances

2021-03-19

[I] Goldman Sachs staff revolt at ‘98-hour week’
[I] Over half of staff go back to workplace
[I] Health chiefs confirm Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid jab safe to use
[S] Kotoko Signs Second Brazalian Player
[N] It Is A Blatant Lie That I’ve Declared My Prez Ambition-Agric Minister
[S] Accra Mayor to change face of sports in Greater Accra
[S] Ambassador Lutterodt charges GOC prez to tackle Martha Bissah issue
[S] Ben Nunoo-Mensah hits ground running for GOC
[S] Black Stars to Engage Uzbekistan In International Friendly
[N] House of Chiefs calls for collaboration with MMDCEs for development
[N] Baby Harvesting: More suspects picked
[N] Police pledge commitment to bringing Sheikh Maikano’s murderers to book
[B] ARB Apex Bank admitted to Ghana-Sweden Chamber of Commerce
[N] Desist from starting race ahead of time - Obiri Boahen to NPP presidential
[N] Gov’t announces construction of five interchanges in Ashanti
[N] Controversial textbooks: NPP urges NaCCA to enforce rules without fear or favour
[N] Staff working on Tamale interchange call off strike
[N] Newly proposed taxes a huge hindrance to businesses’ recovery
[N] Government can’t take a unilateral decision on salaries for public workers
[N] Ghana records 2 new Covid-19 variants; experts call for immediate action

2021-03-17

[S] First GFA safety and security seminar takes place today
[B] NDPC holds consultation medium term framework for 2022-2025 in Oti
[B] More investments recorded in Western Region despite COVID-19
[N] Ghana records 698 COVID-19 deaths
[N] NDC’s Ofosu Ampofo behaves like a toddler – Allotey Jacobs
[S] Don’t tax sports betting, ban it – Ato Forson to government
[N] Ama Benyiwaa Doe slams Allotey Jacobs; says he has no influence
[N] Approving Akufo-Addo’s ministers ‘regrettable and unfortunate’ – NDC caucus
[S] Don't rush Satellites players, warns GFA coaching boss
[N] Eastern Regional Hospital detains 246 patients for non-settlement of bills
[N] COVID-19 vaccination in Ghana: 1,000 reports received on adverse effects
[N] Ignore reports of rift between local, foreign staff at AfCFTA secretariat – Govt
[N] Remain calm, support our leadership in Parliament – NDC Council of Elders
[N] Ghana hasn’t recorded any case of blood clots from COVID-19 vaccination – FDA
[N] 9-year-old boy burnt to death as stepfather sets house ablaze
[B] Budget cuts for legislature, judiciary won’t be entertained – Speaker
[I] Half of UK managers back mandatory Covid vaccines for office work
[I] Brussels to propose Covid certificate to allow EU-wide travel

2021-03-16

[I] Nick Candy leads £1m drive to oust London mayor Sadiq Khan
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[ 2016-10-23 ]

No "Neutral" Journalists; it's "Naivety" "Futile Exercise" To Search For One -
Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi
Pratt Jnr. believes there are no neutral
journalists so far as media practice is
concerned.

To him, it will be an "exercise in futility" for
one to go in search of such a journalist; implying
that every media practitioner has an agenda.

In a apparent response to President John Dramani
Mahama's lamentations that there's a media cabal
blocking the good news of his government to
Ghanaians, Mr Pratt cautioned political leaders to
"stop looking for neutral Communicators...it's a
mark of naivety and some times, a mark of
something else to be looking for neutral
Communicators."

President Mahama, in a recent interview with
Ovation International Magazine, bemoaned the
blocking of his administration's transformational
agenda by a group he describes as a "media cabal",
sieving their (government's) good performance
before it reaches Ghanaians.

“It is populism, a certain group has taken
control of the media in Ghana and it makes it
difficult for people to discern the truth. So as
much as you are putting out the information, it is
either being blocked or distorted,” he said.

Speaking to the issue on Radio Gold's "Alhaji and
Alhaji", Kwesi Pratt emphasized that it's a naive
person that thinks that media practitioners are
neutral people.

Mr. Pratt further blamed leaders and government
officials for causing their own problems, noting
that journalists are not obliged to pick news
angles from their perspectives.

He advised them to rather sift their speeches.

"Now, I listen to all these officials including
Presidents, Ministers, opposition leaders and so
on. Is it possible to report everything they say.
It is not...It is not possible. That is why when
public officers, when prominent people are
speaking; they have to choose what they say. So,
if you're going to speak at a public place
somewhere and you, yourself, you add irrelevant
things in your speech; you create the conditions
for people to pick what you consider to be
relevant which they may consider to be most
relevant," he said.

Source - Peacefmonline



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