General News of Sunday, 28 August 2016Source: Starrfmonline.comMedia giving powers to serial callers – EC bossCharlotte Osei, EC ChairpersonSerial callers on radio talk shows are becoming powerful and gradually setting agenda for national discourse, the EC chairperson Mrs. Charlotte Osei has warned. She said the development is dangerous and has admonished the media to immediately arrest the situation before it gets out of hand. “Currently, however, the media seem to have ceded its power to set the national agenda to the politicians and their paid serial callers,” Mrs Osei lamented. She added: “In our more recent history we have allowed serial callers and political actors to insult all and sundry including foreign diplomats, religious leaders and traditional rulers. Mrs Osei has therefore called on the media to focus on issues that will bring about development.

Source: GhanaWeb August 28, 2016 08:26 UTC