State-owned media organisations

Government Policy Will Make State-Owned Media Self-Sustaining

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The Government is planning to transform state-owned media organisations to financially independent and self-sustaining institutions. The phenomenon of some of these state media outfits being puppets of governing parties has for years dominated public discussions. The Minister for Information, Mustapha Hamid, says the current administration is committed to staying out of the affairs of the … Read more

Privatise GBC, Daily Graphic – Casely-Hayford

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State-owned media organisations such as the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and Daily Graphic should be privatised to prevent political parties using them as propaganda machinery when they come to power, a member of pressure group OccupyGhana, Sydney Casely-Hayford, has advised. His comment comes on the back of the New Patriotic Party’s flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo’s refusal … Read more