Responsible Journalism - A Key To Ghana's Peaceful Election
Charles Kwasi Marfo The Media is consider as the forth Arm of Government in a democratic State. The role the media plays toward the progress and retrogression of the state can't be underestimate. The media be it electronic or printed has its own way of influencing the society. In most third world countries where education is less rated, most people especially the rural folds holds the media in high esteem hence whatever they hear from the media is taken as the Gospel truth. Journalism is the work and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. Journalist is a person who collects, writes or distributes news or other current information. There cannot be the media without journalist and there cannot be a journalist without the media. Chapter 12 of the 1992 constitution of Ghana guarantees Freedom of the Press and independence of the med...