Story: Mary Ankrah
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) has asked the media to play their watchdog role effectively so as to deepen the country’s democracy and sustain its peace.
The Managing Director of GCGL, Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, made the call during a day’s working tour of some television networks in the national capital on Tuesday. They are the TV3 Network and TV Africa.
He was received by Mr Santokh Singh and Mr Kwaw Ansah, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of TV3 and TV Africa respectively.
Mr Ashigbey was accompanied by Mr Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh, General Manager (GM), Newspapers; Mr Ransford Tetteh, Editor of the Daily Graphic, and Mr Frank Oduro, GM, Marketing.
He commended the various media houses for the role they were playing and urged them to maintain ethical standards of the media profession to bring sanity into the industry.
“This is the time for all the media houses to work together to take out the charlatans out from the system,” he stated.
He also discussed some collaborative programmes that would boost the media industry and which would be of benefit to the general public.
Mr Ashigbey announced that GCGL would soon bring on board the Graphic Showbiz, one of the newspapers in the company’s stable, on television to meet the demands of the public.
Mr Boadu-Ayeboafoh suggested that the media should collaborate to hold forums in all the regional capitals to enable the political parties to state their commitment to peaceful elections and to engage politicians and political party leaders in interactions to deepen political discourse in the run-up to Election 2012.
For his part, the Mr Tetteh said the collaboration was to add value to the media industry and raised concern about the newspaper reviews in the broadcast media.
He said most of the broadcast media overdid the newspaper review by reading the newspapers from cover to cover which tended to affect the newspaper companies and, therefore, entreated the broadcast media to curtail some of their discussions in order for people to patronise the newspapers.
Mr Ansah of TV Africa expressed gratitude to GCGL management for the visit, saying the collaboration would strengthen the media to fully hold politicians accountable.
He said TV Africa had formed an editorial board to check slander and libel in its news presentation so ensure reporters applied ethical standards in their reportage.
“The National Media Commission needs to be strengthened to enable it to sanction people who flout the ethics of the profession to limit the use of inflammatory words in the media,” he opined.
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