{"id":469711,"date":"2018-03-04T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/04\/i-would-rather-watch-animals-than-watch-ghanaian-television-otabil\/"},"modified":"2018-03-04T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T19:12:17","slug":"i-would-rather-watch-animals-than-watch-ghanaian-television-otabil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/04\/i-would-rather-watch-animals-than-watch-ghanaian-television-otabil\/","title":{"rendered":"I would rather watch animals than watch Ghanaian Television &#8211; Otabil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Sunday,  4 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>brutallyuncensored.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-03-04<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/19431287.295.jpg\" alt=\"Otabil Preach Hands\" title=\"Otabil Preach Hands\" width=\"295\" height=\"296\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Pastor Mensa Otabil<\/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=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1520190737_949_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) founder, Pastor Mensa Otabil on the event of the church\u2019s 34th-anniversary service on Sunday 4th March, gave the congregation his candid opinion about the media in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the Ghanaian media as mediocre and depressing, he said instead of them to focus on useful discussions about how to find solutions to the myriad problems riddling the country, they choose to indulge in pointless discussions about politics from  January to January.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented, \u201cIf you listen to our national conversations, you wonder; are we serious?\u201d Are we? \u201cTurn on the radio. Here there is no political vacation. From the time the vote is cast to the time the next vote is cast, we argue politics morning, afternoon, evening\u2026 Check all your top radio talk shows, take politics out and they have nothing to talk about again. I won\u2019t even say take politics out, take NPP and NDC out. Just say, this morning no NPP, no NDC. There\u2019ll be no conversation because we can\u2019t even think beyond two parties. We can\u2019t think solutions and we are driving ourselves into this abyss of hopelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said in order not to \u201cpollute\u201d himself with the filth that is the Ghanaian media, he spends as little time as possible paying them any attention. According to him, he can only endure Ghanaian radio for as long as 15 minutes before tuning off because \u201cIt is very depressing. It will contaminate your soul\u201d. \u201cI don\u2019t watch Ghanaian TV much. I watch a little\u2026 one, two, three, and I say Oh nothing has changed, go back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will watch animals. I\u2019ll watch cheetah, I\u2019ll watch lion, I\u2019ll watch antelope anytime\u2026 I\u2019ll watch giraffes anytime because at least they\u2019ll tell me how to hunt, how to get to your goal, how to avoid being eaten. I\u2019ll learn that from an antelope. At least I\u2019d come back and say: nobody will eat me. But you listen to Ghanaian radio, watch Ghanaian TV and you wonder; are we still here, the mediocrity?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is apparent from the ICGC Boss\u2019s comments that he thinks very poorly of the media in Ghana. \u201cThe excellence that we used to have is all gone down. Instead of raising the bar higher we\u2019ve lowered it and lowered it everytime we lower it lower and lower and lower and we have huge problems\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said he didn\u2019t care if western media decide to joke because they have solved most of their problems. We, on the other hand, have serious problems to tackle, yet we choose to joke. And he obviously doesn\u2019t find any of it amusing in the least.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm\u2026 I do have a friend who would never hear a certain \u201cLiving Word\u201d on a certain radio station because it is \u201cGhanaian media\u201d and all content is absolutely trash and he\/she would rather race snails.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 24 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>General News of Sunday, 4 March 2018 Source: brutallyuncensored.com 2018-03-04 Pastor Mensa Otabil The International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) founder, Pastor Mensa Otabil on the event of the church\u2019s 34th-anniversary service on Sunday 4th March, gave the congregation his candid opinion about the media in Ghana. 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