With the complaint by President Mahama that his ‘transformational message’ is being “blocked or distorted” by the media, the Daily Statesman, Friday 21, 2016, decided to monitor the major news bulletin of GTV, the state broadcaster, at 7pm.
And it was revealing to note that even though as many as six activities involving President Mahama and the governing NDC were featured, none involving any of the opposition parties was featured.
The news bulletin began with President Mahama’s inauguration of a new fleet of buses for the State Transport Company, and quickly followed up with a news item of Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur speaking against the NPP Manifesto in Cape Coast.
Right after that, another news item on the Vice President at the Fosu College of Education was broadcasted.
GTV again followed it up with another news item on Julius Debrah, the Chief of Staff, who was also in the Brong Ahafo region campaigning for President Mahama and the NDC.
GTV again fed viewers with a news item on the First Lady, Lordina Mahama, who had donated some items to a hospital, before showing a news item which was not related to politics. But that was quickly followed by a story of a group known as ‘Transformational Ladies’, a wing of NDC, making a donation to the Osu Children’s home.
With two slots for advertisement before the business segment, GTV dedicated one slot for an NDC campaign advert and the other for a home appliance company, Hisense, before coming back with business news on the Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, claiming that the economy was projected to grow in 2017.
Again, another time was allotted for an NDC campaign advertisement before the state broadcaster started its international news.
Strangely, the state broadcaster did not find it worthwhile to carry any news item involving the the main opposition NPP whose Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, and Running Mate, Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, were also campaigning at differerent locations just the same time their counterparts in the governing NDC were doing same.
Source: Daily Statesman
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Fred beause of your comment i laugh aaaa go enter Koley Lagon inside. ... I do now understand why in every turn of a new administration they do sack all these gre,e.dy u.gly beer stomach kind of CEOs.
Yet is is over the place crying. 'Enko yie'. CHANGE IS COMING! Ghanainas have already made up their minds. NOTHING CAN CHANGE THEIR MINDS. NDC IS ALRADY IN OPPOSITION!
It is unprofessional for the news editor to behavior this way. Please whoever is in charge we know you, we work with you time will tell
The mind of Ghanaians are already made up. It is not the media that will tell us whether we can pay our children's school fees or not. the media wont be able to tell me how well I'm faring financially. The NDC can have all, the airwaves in addition to the huge billboards and numerous campaign posters and flyers... Still they will be booted out of government. We have had enough of their mismanagement and mediocre performance.
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Even some of the privately own TV Stations Like Vasit 1 TV for them they have surprised him paa .it look like the Editor of their 7pm news is on the payroll John Mahama rented press.
And you expect me to pay TV license? Apuuuuuuuuuuu
Mahama is losing and he'll lose BIG no matter what he does. He can bring the sky down. Nothing will help him.