{"id":7830,"date":"2024-08-21T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2024-08-21T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T09:00:33","slug":"2024-elections-mfwa-cautions-media-against-being-used-as-propaganda-tools-for-falsehoods-vile-rhetorics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7830","title":{"rendered":"2024 Elections: MFWA cautions media against being used as propaganda tools for falsehoods &amp; vile rhetorics."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has cautioned journalists to be circumspect in their work ahead of the 2024 general elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghanaians are preparing to go to the polls on December 7 to elect a president and Members of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Electoral Commission (EC), as part of the preparations, is currently undertaking voters\u2019 register exhibition exercise across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MFWA asked journalists to be interrogative and inquisitive in the reporting in order to ensure that the right information is churned out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-54aae6f9b68eb56d8336654cb60d5f60 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tCRq0tXnE5I?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Executive Director, Sulemna Braimah stated that politicians have a penchant for taking undue advantage of the media to engage in propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They must not be allowed to go on with that, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post on his X platform, Mr Braimah said \u201cFellow journalists, as we draw closer to the elections, let\u2019s not serve as conveyor belts and megaphones for the propaganda, falsehoods and vile rhetorics of our politicians who mainly seek power to loot from state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet\u2019s be interrogative, inquisitive and critical our reporting,\u201d he further cautioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has cautioned journalists to be circumspect in their work ahead of the 2024 general elections. Ghanaians are preparing to go to the polls on December 7 to elect a president and Members of Parliament. 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