{"id":766999,"date":"2019-12-17T20:12:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/17\/ghanaian-media-promotes-positivity-cookie-tee-on-voa\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T20:12:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:12:53","slug":"ghanaian-media-promotes-positivity-cookie-tee-on-voa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/17\/ghanaian-media-promotes-positivity-cookie-tee-on-voa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian media promotes positivity \u2013 Cookie Tee on VOA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The host of \u2018tales of the powder room\u2019 on GHOne TV and co-host of the Starr Drive on Starr 103.5 FM Shirley E. F. Tibilla popularly known as Cookie Tee over the weekend took a tour of the VOA studios in Washington to interact with staff and shared her experience in the media landscape in Ghana with them.<\/p>\n

Cookie also had the opportunity to interact with one of the VOA\u2019s broadcast legends and on-air personality Dr. Shaka Ssali of \u2018Straight Talk Africa\u2019. She used the opportunity to introduce the EIB Network to him.<\/p>\n

Speaking on press freedom in the Ghanaian media space in an interview with Douglas Mpuga on the \u2018Nightline Africa\u2019 show on VOA she said, \u201cGhana is quite free, freedom of speech, democracy is like 100% in Ghana. But that doesn\u2019t mean you can just get on the radio and say anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

She went on \u201cI mean, we\u2019ve had instances where people would just come on air, they start to free their minds and especially attack political leaders. But that\u2019s being regulated right now. Because that\u2019s not what the media is supposed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cookie observed that the media is supposed to put positivity out there. \u201cEven if there\u2019s a lot of outcry, rage out there, the media is actually supposed to tone it down. So in Ghana back home that\u2019s what we do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Cookie Tee is booked and confirmed as red-carpet host for Sarkodie\u2019s upcoming \u2018Rapperholic\u2019 concert slated this Christmas day.<\/p>\n

In appreciating TheAfricanDream LLC for facilitating her VOA tour she said \u201cI\u2019ve learned a few new amazing things that I can bring to bear on Ghana especially with my work on TV and radio. I also loved my amazing interview opportunity with Douglas Mpuga on the \u2018Nightline Africa\u2019 show on VOA.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, running into one of VOA\u2019s broadcast legends and on-air personality Dr. Shaka Ssali of \u2018Straight Talk Africa\u2019 which has aired to a global audience for two straight decades was the cherry on the cake for me,\u201d an excited Cookie Tee explained.<\/p>\n