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President Calls For Filtered Broadcasting

President John Mahama has urged journalism to take into consideration it's global impact.

He stress on the fact that, journalists of today are a major part of news dissemination globally, "whether he likes it or not

Ghana's head of state was speaking at the Accra International Conference Center on Wednesday to mark 20years since the first private radio station Radio EYE broke the monopoly of state media in Ghana. According to the President, he has been calling for a "self-imposed" media guideline in delayed broadcasting even when he was Communications Minister in 1998. He argue that these guidelines will block the broadcast of slanderous and abusive comments and in all put a check on defamatory content from reaching the public, both locally and globally.

Using the media report of a Ghanaian woman Nayele Ametefe who was arrested in the UK with cocaine after traveling from the Kotoka International Airport on an Austrian passport as an example, the president noted that personal reputations are damaged and Ghana's international image soiled when a journalist fails to check facts and ascertain information he chances upon.

He said the initial picture of the woman used by some online websites was not that of the woman arrested. This, he said, damaged the reputation of an “innocent woman sitting in her corner somewhere".

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