Deal with media tyranny the same method you treat abuse associated with Journalists – Gyampo

The senior lecturer at the University or college of Ghana Political Technology Department Prof. Ransford Gyampo has asked that press tyranny should be dealt with exactly the same way abuse of Media is treated in Ghana. According to him, it’s essential that “we must not always hype the abuse associated with journalists over the infractions associated with journalists in a manner that only demonizes abusers and perpetuate mass media tyranny”. To him, “We must deal with the trend of media tyranny with all the same energy we would handle those who abuse journalists”. This individual believes that as phone calls are on Security Capos to work alongside professionalism there is the need for Media in the country not to see them selves as tin gods. “Security capos must be civil, gentle and law-abiding, in managing those who violate laws. Yet at the same time, no group of people may assert tin-god status within the rest of the populace. Even the Executuve President, clothed with all power like a political king-kong, can not be a tin-god in a growing old democracy like Ghana. ”Read His Write Up Here1. Mass media Freedom MUST be respected in each and every democracy. But this is not licentious for Media Tyranny. The particular unintended consequences of the liberalization of our airwaves and the proscription of laws that gagged the media, following the promulgation of the 1992 Constitution, continues to be the belief that journalists must be tin-gods, who must not be touched, no matter what they do, and can arrogate in order to themselves the right to do something, including turning a man right into a woman. 2 . Sometimes, within their quest to be the first in order to the news, some blatantly offend and deliberately run down reputations and even when their interest is drawn to their mistakes, some ignore and others might publish retractions with infinitesimal prominence. 3. Some sensationalize issues that require sobriety, plus publish images that irritates customary protocols, with impunity. Some deliberately give incorrect headlines to stories only for the purposes of selling their own tabloids or directing visitors their sites. Some perform these with impunity plus feel they cannot and should not be touched by anyone, since they belong to the Fourth Estate from the realm. This is what I contact Media Tyranny. 4. Democracy cannot thrive in a routine of Media Tyranny. Equal rights before the law is a differentiating feature of every democracy with no group of people can assume brilliance over others. By all means, Media must do their work nevertheless they err, they must understand they aren’t tin-gods. They have to face the law too, however in a civil manner, without high-handedness. In the current alleged attack on a Citi FM media, a few questions must be dispassionately solved: 1 . Is there truly a regulation in Ghana that prohibits us from taking pictures from certain security areas? second . Can this rule become violated by a journalist within the national interest? 3. The entire idea of National Interest is definitely nebulous. Who defines the particular national interest and in whose interest is the national attention? Is the national interest the general public interest? Who is the public? May national/public interest arbitrarily described by anybody? 4. May any Ghanaian enter the property of any state organization or property and begin to consider pictures? Can any Ghanaian go to the Jubilee House and start to take pictures, just because the area is run with our fees? 5. Did the reporter violate any law about what he did? 6. Had been he truly beaten whenever arrested and is there any kind of evidence to suggest therefore , beyond his own narration? seven. Is it lawful to pummelled any Ghanaian and for that will matter, an identifiable Reporter who may have allegedly violated any kind of law? There are two edges to the issue. First, the particular journalist allegedly violating the law, a custom or even a practice, and second, the particular National Security operatives apparently beating him up, with out resorting to due procedure for law. These must be separately investigated without any cover-up. The particular National Security may perform its own investigations but this will not prejudice any impartial investigations into the matter. Usually, (and this isn’t with particular reference to the alleged Caleb beating incident), we must not really continue to hype the mistreatment of journalists over the infractions of journalists in a manner that just demonizes abusers and perpetuate media tyranny. We must handle the phenomenon of press tyranny with the same power we would deal with those who mistreatment journalists. Security capos should be civil, humane and law-abiding, in handling those who break laws. But at the same time, simply no group of people can assert tin-god status over the rest of the people. Even the Executuve President, clothed with all powers like a politics king-kong, cannot be a tin-god in a maturing democracy such as Ghana. Yaw GyampoA31, PrabiwPAV Ansah StreetSaltpond& Suro Nipa HouseKubeaseLarteh-AkuapimSource: MyNewsGh. com/ 2021
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