….. if this was a Ghanaian President (photo)
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The media held the balls of President Mahama when after an interview with CNN, he posed infront of CNN to take a picture. This became a propaganda of which Politicians rode on to defame the President. Some of us did not see anything wrong with that since President Obama posed infront of Cape Coast Castle and that was so cool with us.
At the Memorial Service of late Nelson Mandela in South Africa, Barack Obama, David Cameron and the Danish PM took a picture of themselves with the phone of one of the Heads of State. It is unclear whose iPhone was used to take the picture.
The question that quickly poked my mind was “How would Ghana have reacted if that was President Mahama?” Lets picture the bemoaning of the media if that was President Mahama instead of Barrack Obama. The Chronicle would headline the next day’s edition ‘Mahama displays prowess in photography at Mandela’s Memorial’ , Daily Guide would caption ‘Mahama the photographer; memorial on Presidential phone’ , Finder will headline it ‘Mandela’s Memorial; Mahama saves on phone’ among other cruel headlines the dailies would spew.
There are so many pressing issues that the media hardly touch on but there is enough space and words to describe and report on not so relevant stories, particularly politics. A cousin from United Kingdom asked me on Facebook if the media in Ghana only report on Politics because that is what is inundating it.
One of the easiest things to identify in Ghana is spotting which medium is behind which political party and which medium is structured to spot loop holes in governments and oppositions.
If in 21st century a JSS 2 Student at Bepoase D/A 2 in the Ashanti Region starts an essay with ‘ones )pon a tieme’ instead of ‘once upon a time’ , and no one is helping to improve the lives of these future leaders by drawing the attention of the Education Ministry and Ghana Education Service, then we have failed as a fourth realm of the state.
The media in Ghana can do better by helping to better Ghana instead of a political party.
Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net)
ABOUT: Nana Kwesi Coomson
[email protected] An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.
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