{"id":86957,"date":"2015-01-30T15:14:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=86957"},"modified":"2015-01-30T15:14:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T15:14:22","slug":"political-parties-must-monitor-the-media-nmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=86957","title":{"rendered":"Political Parties must monitor the media &#8211; NMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Media Commission (NMC) has emphasized the need for political parties to closely monitor the media.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the Commission, Kabral Blay Amihere made these remarks at a press briefing on an interim report on Media Monitoring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghana-political-parties-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1970\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghana-political-parties-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana-political-parties (1)\" width=\"742\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghana-political-parties-1.jpg 742w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghana-political-parties-1-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report focused on political coverage, agenda setting and the use of hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission believes constant monitoring of the media landscape will \u00a0inure to the benefit of the various political parties as they seek to \u00a0project their ideas to the electorate.<\/p>\n<p>The monitoring activities were between \u00a0January 12 to 23, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the report, Chairman of the commission appealed to political parties to show interest in events that unfold in the media landscape, saying \u201cI think political parties should be involved in this exercise because it can influence the way they conduct their media strategies and programmes to get coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was in politics, I will be interested because it tells you how much coverage the papers are giving you,\u201d he added<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Media Commission (NMC) has emphasized the need for political parties to closely monitor the media. The Chairman of the Commission, Kabral Blay Amihere made these remarks at a press briefing on an interim report on Media Monitoring. The report focused on political coverage, agenda setting and the use of hate speech. The Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-86957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}