{"id":663960,"date":"2019-07-25T07:38:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T07:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p>The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is elated over the ruling by the National Media Commission (NMC) on Multimedia Group\u2019s controversial documentary titled \u2018Militia in the heart of the nation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He said the ruling has vind"},"modified":"2019-07-25T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T07:38:12","slug":"militia-documentary-govt-vindicated-by-nmc-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/25\/militia-documentary-govt-vindicated-by-nmc-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Militia documentary: Gov&#8217;t vindicated by NMC ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is elated over the ruling by the National Media Commission (NMC) on Multimedia Group\u2019s controversial documentary titled \u2018Militia in the heart of the nation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He said the ruling has vindicated government.<\/p>\n<p>The commission ruled that the documentary though was done in the national interest was misleading.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Wednesday, the Minister said government was never at war with Multimedia Group\u2019s documentary but just wanted them to acknowledge that their documentary had a lot of misrepresentation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are not at war with any media house or Multimedia in particular to necessarily demand so much of them. For us, our interest was to establish that there was a lot of misrepresentation, it was misleading, it was in breach of the ethical standards but that has been upheld and I think we should let sleeping dogs lie,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #666699;\"><strong>National Media Commission<\/strong><\/span> (NMC) in its ruling insisted that the documentary goes against GJA\u2019s code of ethics although the focus on the group operating from the Osu Castle was in the interest of the public.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn the end, the Commission found out that the attempt to expose the fact that the group operated from the Castle was in the public interest. However, in the attempt, the investigation had not been consistent in following the ethical standards defined by the Ghana Journalists Association\u2019s code of ethics, particularly guideline 23, which states that \u2018a journalist ensures that photographs and multimedia content adequately reflect an event and do not highlight an incident out of context\u2019,\u201d the Commission stated in its report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>The Commission<\/strong> <\/span>among other things said the use of some photos in the documentary were not properly related to the original focus of the story.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2019, Joy News produced a documentary purporting that the State was complicit in the training of a supposed militia that used the former seat of government, the Osu Castle as its training ground.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_3_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"g g-5\">\n<div class=\"g-single a-10\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Citinewsroom-Ad-1.jpeg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Government condemned the documentary and described it as misleading.<\/p>\n<p>It subsequently petitioned the NMC to probe the matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is elated over the ruling by the National Media Commission (NMC) on Multimedia Group\u2019s controversial documentary titled \u2018Militia in the heart of the nation.\u2019 He said the ruling has vindicated government. The commission ruled that the documentary though was done in the national interest was misleading. 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