The Porosity Of Our Media And The 21st Century Media 'Galamsaying'

Exceptional Motivational Speaker Jeremiah Buabeng wrote something on his Facebook wall which indeed keeps haunting my inner-most part and as a result my daily nightmares of the cancerous tribute grinding us down in the grinding mill of catastrophe.

Jeremiah states and I quote, "to the media, good news is no news. We are in our 20's doing awesome things with our gifts and talents. The media won't talk about us. Let a 25 year old rob a bank and it will be a headline news and the adults will join and berate young people of today for being misguided. What kind of unfairness is that"?

Indeed this is how far pathetically the media landscape of our nation have resulted into. Do we as a nation and a people actually understand, appreciate and value the adages of our lands? The Akan proverbial adage stipulates emphatically that, "it is worthless appreciating a dead corpse with a casket, when in contention no food was graced to it lively body when alive." What does adage tells us? I guess the meaning is not meant for it comprehension by our media houses.

Today, the appalling media fracture in terms of the demonic politicisation of everything national have dealt a big blow to the instinctive reasoning aroma of this beloved nation of ours.

The media's illegal "surface mining" and "galamsaying" have resulted in what Jeremiah laid emphasis on. It is this same media "galamsaying" that have and is still perpetuating our sinking in the deep waters of retrogression. Can't this media of ours at least appreciate the worth, altruistic and overwhelming achievements of our future leaders? What good will it do us as a people if this trend of media "galamsaying" and parrotic propagandry continues to lingereth on?

The souls and spiritual fortification of tomorrow's leaders of this country is on the high table in the abattoir to be slaughtered like a sacrificial lamb. Whilst this negativity in terms of the youth are constantly headlined in the media enclave, the 'outside force' who have persistently sought for our 'pit trapping' keep believing the impression that indeed the people of Africa are synonymous to 'infertile virgin lands'.

What the media outfits must take a pictorial and closer look at is the negative yet well polished impression they create to the outside community about this beloved nation of ours. Whether we striving hard to put the youth of this nation in better position to manage the affairs of this nation is one thing we must all be made aware of. The same as whether this nation would be left in the safest pair of hands when the older generation vacate their role of as leaders.

The media as it is regarded as the "forth arm" of the state must revise it modalities and methods at branding the things concerning our future leaders. Their role as being watch dogs to expose fundamental human abuses, tyrannical tendencies by those in charge of our administration as well as bringing to limelight all forms of generational canker corruption of inheritance and rot must be duly committed to and be a focal point.

We must as a people and the media megabytes always be reminded and guided by the statement of Ghana's first president and Africa's foremost Pan-africanist Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah which stipulates that, "the blackman is capable of managing his own affairs". When this done, I believe the media would be an avenue to fully support the aspirational realisation of the youth of this nation and the future would smile at us as we strive relentlessly to attain the objectives of the millennium development goals.