{"id":702117,"date":"2019-09-09T19:02:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/09\/journalists-must-have-humility-to-admit-their-error-nana\/"},"modified":"2019-09-09T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T19:02:01","slug":"journalists-must-have-humility-to-admit-their-error-nana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/09\/journalists-must-have-humility-to-admit-their-error-nana\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Must Have Humility To Admit Their Error &#8211; Nana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged journalists to have the humility to acknowledge their mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cpoliticians are not the only persons who make mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cmedia practitioners, like all human beings, can also make mistakes, and when they do, they should have the humility to acknowledge their error, and not have their misdeeds atoned under the guise of \u201d media freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo made the remarks whilst delivering a speech at the 2019 Ghana Bar Association Conference on Monday, September 9, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cirresponsible media practice is an abuse of freedom of expression, not its manifestation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That notwithstanding, he revealed that \u201cstrenuous efforts are being made to find the killer or killers of Ahmed Suale, who will be found and made to face justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Suale was an undercover investigative journalist with Tiger Eye PI.<\/p>\n<p>He was shot and killed by unknown person (s) in Madina, a suburb of Ghana\u2019s capital, Accra.<\/p>\n<p>No Suppression<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo noted that \u201cno effort is being made to suppress freedom of expression in Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, the continuing vitality of the Ghanaian media and the intense diversity of our public discourse remain some of the most internationally admired traits of Ghanaian democracy,\u201d according to him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gba-4-983x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245682\"  \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gba-983x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245679\"  \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gba-2-983x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245683\"  \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gba-5-983x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245684\"  \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gba-6-983x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245685\"  \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gba-7-983x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245686\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BY Melvin Tarlue <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged journalists to have the humility to acknowledge their mistakes. According to him, \u201cpoliticians are not the only persons who make mistakes.\u201d He said \u201cmedia practitioners, like all human beings, can also make mistakes, and when they do, they should have the humility to acknowledge their error, and not have their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Journalists Must Have Humility To Admit Their Error - Nana - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/09\/journalists-must-have-humility-to-admit-their-error-nana\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Journalists Must Have Humility To Admit Their Error - Nana - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged journalists to have the humility to acknowledge their mistakes. 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