Stakeholders at a consultative meeting on the passage of a broadcasting law to regulate broadcasting activities in the country have unanimously agreed that the time for such a law is more rife than ever.
According to them, the lack of a law to regulate the activities of the media was causing a lot of threats to the morale fibre of society due to the sharp rise in content such as portrayal of money doubling activities, rituals, pornography and the sale and advertisement of unapproved products, among others.
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The Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Mr Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh, said the commission was constrained in ensuring that media organisations did the right thing, “all we can do is appeal to them. Initially they agree but by the next day, you see them going back to their old ways” as that was their only means of survival.