"Once a teacher, always a teacher, " goes the cliché!
This year's World Radio Day(February 13) marks my 13th year as educational radio broadcaster with a background as a trained teacher with distinction, quitting the classroom to "fight" for space on radio to continue what inspired me to get radio exposure as a quiz contestant at age 15.
The frustrations that greeted my desperations for my first educational radio broadcast on Saturday, February 25, 2006, have not changed, for reasons unreasonable to me.
The radio stations' "anthem" is
"Bring sponsors!"
when they spend hours airing somewhat morally questionable contents under the monitoring of our educated media and educational fraternity.
And if you're given a slot, you're given some needless deadline to stop the programme if no sponsor shows interest.
What's the meaning of education in the media's
"Inform, Educate, Entertain"
catch phrase?
Again, with reference to my piece,
YEAR OF READING: MY CONCERNS(1),
I ask Radio Ghana:
"Where is Everyday English' " ?; a Monday-Friday morning broadcast that benefitted your presenters more than any other listener.
If gold should rust, what will happen to iron?
Yes, the radio stations need money for workers for bread and butter issues(as Chief Psychiatrist Akwasi Osei always puts it) but the question I still put to you is
"What about the other not sponsored programmes?"
It is time we mutually partnered initiators of educational broadcasts to bring back the good old educational programmes, if we can't advance them.(Half a loaf is better than no bread)
To our local language advocates, please, arise because the languages are being infiltrated on radio by our unteachable media movers and shakers.
Where have standards gone?
YEAR OF READING?
I hesitate to continue!
✍🏽: Osei Kuffour
Fb: Osei Kuffour OK
E: editorok5@gmail
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