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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He keeps lamenting because he is just incompetent.
It so sad that for the 2nd year running Ghana has been classified as a Tier 2 Watch List Country by the United State in Trafficking In Persons(TIP)-meaning that the govt doesn't fully meet the minimum standards for elimination of TIP.And for 2yrs running means we are at a tipping point of been downgraded to Tier 3.Been ranked as Tier 3 means the country will become subject to restrictions on U.S assistance including development aid and MCC compact.The USA currently provide $140 million per year in development aid to Ghana while the MCC is worth more than $498million. Other US programs including assistance in the areas of law enforcement,capacity building for state prosecutors,security and military support,increase the capacity of EC will be subject to restrictions in 2017 if relentless fight is not staged by govt to deal with TIP and instead of editors of state institutions to crack the whip on govt to make drastic effort at reducing TIP,they have shamefully decided to project the campaigns of a desperate and a failed govt to denigrate the efforts of the opposition to rescue us from the economic doldrums.This will not work.change at this juncture is inevitable
I'M VERY GLAD THAT PEOPLE NOW KNOW THAT GTV DOES NOT DESERVE TV LICENSE.I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHEN I TUNE IN TO THAT STATION.
ALL 1DIOTS ON THIS PLATFORM MUST UNDERSTAND AND BE SCHOOLED THAT POLITICAL ADVERTS ON TV ARE PAID FOR AND THE PAYMENTS ARE ACCORDING TO WHEN YOU WANT IT AIRED SO ALL YOU 11DIOTS COMMENTING NEGATIVELY ABOUT THE NATION'S NUMBER STATION VIEWED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY CAN PAY FOR YOUR NANA PEOPLES PARTY (NPP)
who even watch that station sef? mada kraa
No one should pay TV license in Ghana.....
Yes its true, not only them oooo, Utv and some of their news readers are also displaying these unprofessional behavours and i just pity them. The clock will turn around. We live to see #change is indeed coming.
Please take your TV licence to the NDC to pay. We can't pay for it to be used to project one party. #chang is here#
How many people watch GTV news these days?
GTV can dedicate all their TV channels to NDC campaign and they will still loose. And they want all Ghanaians to finance their operations. And you want us to pay TV license fees? Tweaa...