{"id":442466,"date":"2017-11-30T18:27:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/30\/nyantakyi-bemoans-falling-standards-of-sports-journalism\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T18:27:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:27:57","slug":"nyantakyi-bemoans-falling-standards-of-sports-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/30\/nyantakyi-bemoans-falling-standards-of-sports-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyantakyi bemoans falling standards of sports journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 30 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanacrusader.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-11-30<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/78880521.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Nyantakyi Wild\" title=\"Kwesi Nyantakyi Wild\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>GFA President, Kwesi Nyantakyi<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1512066477_472_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, has expressed his deepest regret for the fallen standard of sports journalism in the country.<\/p>\n<p>There have been various assertions in the Ghanaian public which suggest that, the media have not helped thrive the development of Ghana\u2019s sports which largely led to the dwindling fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>During his address at the three-day football summit organised by the GFA, Nyantakyi highlighted the need to work very closely with the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG), in order to institute educational programs to enlighten media personnel on their respective roles and stop attacking personalities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to build a strong relationship with the media, we want to engage SWAG and help them understand what we do better and provide more information thus organizing more seminars so that they can interrogate our activities further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth the media and GFA are partners with the common objective of developing the game and it doesn\u2019t lie in anybody\u2019s interest if they are problems,\u201d Nyantakyi told the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the irony of the whole thing is that the standards of journalism nowadays has fallen regrettably as compared to the days of Kwabena Yeboah, Joe Aggrey, Carl Tuffour, Felix Abayateye and me for instance I have court cases against people and that is the reason for it.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI don\u2019t regret for going to court and I can assure with this few I have filled I have more to fill and this is to just clear my name and I\u2019m not interested in compensation from anybody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the point I want to emphasize is that we want to work with the media and let put aside our personal prejudice and likes or dislike for people and concentrate on Ghana\u2019s football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 56 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Thursday, 30 November 2017 Source: ghanacrusader.com 2017-11-30 GFA President, Kwesi Nyantakyi President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, has expressed his deepest regret for the fallen standard of sports journalism in the country. 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