The Daily Guide's Nauseating Mendacity - Do Those Who Run It Have No Sense Of Shame?

The time has definitely come for Ghanaian society to confront the threat posed  to our democracy, by the egregious mendacity of irresponsible media houses, and the unethical journalists-without-moral-compasses in their employ. Enough is enough. Haaba.

The plain truth is that their cynical yellow-journalism's half-truths and blatant falsehoods are eroding the credibility of our nation's figurative fourth arm of government - at precisely the point in time when a responsible media anchored on ethical journalism practice, and effectively playing its watchdog role in our system, fearlessly, is required to support the nation-building effort.

Despite the rising tide of fake news in the world of Ghanaian journalism, it would be astonishing and unpardonable, if it turned out that the Minority in Parliament's insistence that the story carried by 'The Daily Guide' newspaper - which  accused a number of government ministers in the ertswhile Mahama administration of  recieving double salaries as members of parliament and   ministers of state  - was indeed a blatant falsehood.

It really would be abominable and unspeakable if it were actually the case  that the Daily Guide's story was fake news - for it would confirm the suspicion of some that there are no limits to the depths to which that sychophantic newspaper is prepared to sink in furtherance of its black-arts-propagada objectives.

In this particular  instance, there can be no justification for such monstrous falsehood - not when the Daily Guide, unlike most Ghanaian newspapers, is a well-resourced media entity, and  a phone call to the leadership of the Minority in Parliament, could have quickly elicited the truth. Clearly, the Daily Guide did not learn any useful lessons from its Kwasia-be-enti court judgment debacle.

In light of that obtuseness,  the Minority in Parliament must follow up its threat to sue the paper in the law courts - and instruct their lawyers to start the processes and file the case against the Daily Guide asap. They must demand a minimum of a million cedis each as compensation for all those ex-government appointees whose reputations the Daily Guide so casually trashed, and  arrogantly shred to pieces publicly, on its front page without any justification, whatsoever,  in that egregious example of media-praise-singing gone mad.

The question is: Did the  Daily Guide not learn any lessons from its Kwasia-be-enti court judgment debacle when it toyed with Johnson Asiedu Nketia's reputation in similar fashion? What hubris. Those who run the Daily Guide are doing a great disservice to Mother Ghana. The paper's nauseating mendacity is symptomatic of all that is wrong in today's Ghanaian media landscape. Have they no sense of shame at all? Haaba. We rest our case.