{"id":1076168,"date":"2022-05-04T16:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/i-feel-the-degrading-in-ghanas-press-fredom-status-we-can-all-smell-it-joe-jackson\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T16:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:33:43","slug":"i-feel-the-degrading-in-ghanas-press-fredom-status-we-can-all-smell-it-joe-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/i-feel-the-degrading-in-ghanas-press-fredom-status-we-can-all-smell-it-joe-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"I Feel the Degrading in Ghana&#8217;s Press Fredom Status; We Can all Smell it- Joe Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/963bc1f6835448769f977dfe6f19b928\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Financial Analyst, Mr Joe Jackson has argued that Ghana&#8217;s position on the latest Press Freedom Index cannot be swept under the carpet or treated as a mere perception without merit.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a newspaper review programme on TV3 on Wednesday, Mr Jackson revealed that he feels the deterioration in Ghana&#8217;s press freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not a journalist or to broaden the scope, I may say I&#8217;m part of the profession. But I just know that I feel what was a degrading of our [press freedom] status. It maybe anecdotal but I feel it. We can all smell it. It&#8217;s everywhere&#8221;, Mr Jackson stated.<\/p>\n<p>In recent times, concerns have been raised by several well-meaning Ghanaians, particularly the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) about the arrest and intimidation of some journalists who have been very critical of government.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the country&#8217;s performance on the Press Freedom Index has been on the downward spiral in the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say this lays credence to the perceived attack on press freedom by the government, leading to a gradual return of what has been described as &#8220;culture of silence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: [email\u00a0protected] (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nGhanaians<br \/>\nJackson<br \/>\nJoe Jackson<br \/>\nNDC<br \/>\nNational Democratic Congress<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Financial Analyst, Mr Joe Jackson has argued that Ghana&#8217;s position on the latest Press Freedom Index cannot be swept under the carpet or treated as a mere perception without merit. Speaking in a newspaper review programme on TV3 on Wednesday, Mr Jackson revealed that he feels the deterioration in Ghana&#8217;s press freedom. &#8220;I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1076169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11801,3217,11802,250,1838,3183,9824,11803,2946],"class_list":["post-1076168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-degrading","tag-feel","tag-fredom","tag-ghanas","tag-jackson","tag-joe","tag-press","tag-smell","tag-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}