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General News of Saturday, July 27, 2019
Source: abcnewsgh.com
2019-07-27
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Minister of Information
Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah urged the country's media outlets to take the decision of the National Media Commission to soberly reflect on the role of the media and the need for Responsible journalism in the country.
According to Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, journalists must remain ethical in the process and not sensationalize their work.
"We are not interested in going to town and gloating about it. I think that what has happened is for us an opportunity for sober reflection. Indeed, it gives us all the opportunity to reflect and think about the problems, "said the Minister of Information in NewsFile Saturday.
Last week, the National Media Commission denied the media group's attempt to qualify D-Eye Group, a company that allegedly operated from Osu Castle at one time as a militia.
In its decision on the case between the Government of Ghana and the multimedia group, the CNS stated that the D-Eye group, given the facts provided, posed no threat to safety and did not exhibit any characteristics of the company. 39, a known militia.
Multimedia claimed to press the word militia, as used by Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu, a member of the commission charged with investigating the abuses committed at Ayawaso West Wuogon, at the time. Presidential election after the death of the deputy Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko.
Although it admitted that it was inappropriate for the company to operate from the former seat of government and admitting that the exhibition was in the public interest, the CNG felt that Multimedia Group was not respecting the ethics of journalism with respect to its representation and description of events. the group.
The CNM emphasized in its decision that "although it considers the presence in D-Eye Group Castle to be problematic and unacceptable, the group did not show any violent behavior that could be described as a militia or vigilante group of the documentary in question. as people from Ghana came to identify such groups. "
"Trying to reveal the fact that the group operated from the castle was in the public interest. However, in this attempt, the investigation did not comply with the ethical standards set by the Code of Ethics of the Ghana Journalists Association, in particular with the directive 23 … ", said extracts from the exclusive decision to ABC News .
On March 7 of this year, JoyNews, a subsidiary of The Multimedia Group, aired a 22-minute documentary titled "The Militia at the Heart of the Nation" to "Reveal" the Government's Tolerance to Freedom. 39, a self-defense group formed at the former seat of government.
The government disapproves of some of the content of the documentary and is appealing to the National Media Commission for redress.
Among other things, the CNM baderted in its decision that the inclusion of shots fired from the violence in Ayawaso West Wuogon and the attack of the Ashanti regional security coordinator was in contradiction with the activities of the D-Eye group captured at the castle.
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