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NMC admonishes media to be factual in reportage

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Mr. Yaw Boadu Ayeboafo, Chairman of the National Media Commission
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It will also help sensitise journalists to the need to deploy professional ethics in their reportage of the general election.

The NMC will also visit some selected media houses, interact with journalists as well as editors, and urge them to commit to ensuring accurate and verified reportage of electoral proceedings.

As a former Director of Newspapers, of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Mr. Boadu-Ayeboafoh,  further advised the media to always strive for accuracy instead of speed in their reportage of the elections.

“It is good that you are first, but if anytime you are first and your stories are punctured, what is the first for?

“It is necessary that you wait. When you have gotten all the parameters and you are first, that makes you a good first. The quality of the story is you”, he remarked.

“When journalism comes to publishing inaccurate and unverified information, we would have lost whatever we stand for. There is so much trust in you that you have to do the right thing,” he added.

The chairman also tasked journalists to give meaning to the profession, saying “the significance the profession gets is what we as individuals put into it.”

“As a journalist, you must live as a journalist. You must be remembered as a journalist. You should not be remembered because you are a politician, medical officer or somebody. Each one of us is a trained professional and our profession is no better or inferior to any other profession. If we think that we have value for ourselves, then we are going to act in ways that would give meaning to the practice of journalism,” he said.

The Director of Advocacy and Policy Management, CDD-Ghana, Mr. Kojo Pumpuni Asante, expressed worry about the growing trend in the use of abusive language on the airwaves.

“A practice could be curbed if the media refused to empanel people who used their platform to incite and provoke conflict”, he said.

“As the election countdown begins, we will be counting on the reach, influence and power of the media to influence behaviour and to effectively inform the public in the language they understand about electoral procedures, the dos and don’ts, what they should do after the polls are closed, among others,” Mr Asante said.

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