Ghanaian born Reggae/Dancehall performer, Charles Nii-Armah Mensah, who performs in the entertainment landscape as Shatta Wale, has expressed displeasure at the appalling prejudice rate at which the Ghanaian media respond to issues relating to entertainment in Ghana.
According him, the mass communication industry, including the newspaper, web portals, television and radio; journalist and other related professionals collectively generate enormous interest in broadcasting and publishing fallacious articles about him.
Shatta Wale revealed that, the mass communication industry tilt their reportage to suit a collective few array of some performing acts brand, making their work output look so amateurish in Ghana’s media fraternity.
He added that, commercial enterprises responsible for conveying and disseminating information to reach its heterogeneous followers stage musical concerts with the objective of elevating their preferred over all artistes to reach the diasporas.
In a Facebook post sighted by www.georgebritton.com, the “My Level” crooner stated that, he would have reciprocated a morally accepted form of appreciation or gratitude to the media houses, should they have been charaterized by, or display affirmative, or being constructive in their journals towards him.
The 2015 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards artiste of the year, stated that, he immensely invested exhorbitant and excessive funds in promoting his brand without the help of the media, as the media is only interested in negative stories that is borne out his movement.
Reggae/Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale urged Ghana’s mass communication industry, including the newspaper, web portals, television and radio; journalist and other related professionals collectively to eliminate the hypocrytical reportage within the sector and experience a healthy growth within the industry.
By: Gerrard-Israel GB
