All over the world, celebrities are “species” of mankind with strong love for attention; they continuously seek for media coverage when it is favourable to them. The fame of almost every celebrity is heavily embedded in PR strategies which are fully dependant on the media.
Believe it or not, the media play an indispensable role in making and unmaking a celebrity in every part of the world. In fact, celebrities to a greater extent owe their existence to the media and this is evident from the intertwined relationship between the two, leaving the former without any private room to operate.
Various recent posts on GhanaCelebrities.Com specifically highlighting the charitable works or donations of some of our Ghanaian celebrities with the aim of steering and encouraging others to follow up this good course have come under callous attacks from certain readers.
Some readers are of the view that, charitable works or donations made by celebrities which find their way into the media represent nothing more than publicity stunts, another tool these celebrities have developed in order to get mentioned by the media.
The holders of the above view have supported their thoughts with questions like “why tell the entire world about a donation” and “why did they go to make the donation with reporters beside them”.
I am not aware of anything unethical about announcing or bringing a good deed to light. Even at our sacred Christian homes, don’t ministers mention out loud the names of those who dash out “fat money” to the church? Are we not aware of “anyone with 10 million cedis to give should come forward for a special prayer and blessing?”
The media love to admonish and blast celebrities when they fall short of expected standards. Don’t you therefore think it is proportionate that the same media should be tasked with given publicity to celebrities who live up to expected standards such as giving out to the society?
We must cultivate the habit of appreciation and commend celebrities for their various contributions to our lives and the community at large.
I still cannot fathom what is so wrong with our celebrities pulling out a little bit of attention and media recognition from donations they have willingly made. Maybe someone will point this out to me.
Let’s look beyond any element of publicity stunt in the recent trend of celebrity donations and focus on the admirable initiations that some of our Ghanaian celebrities have resulted to in order to make our part of the world a better place.
Let us extol and acknowledge the good deeds of these celebrities so that others will also find the need and heart join in.
i think our celebrities give from their heart ,ghanains are kind hearted naturally !
Not all celebrities in ghana are generous like Jackie.the likes of Muntari’s are really STINGY wit their Money.
@Osei when are you going to say something posetive for once come on dude it’s not only Jackie that does thing and why do you keep saying that muntari is stingy
Just when I thought this Doja bag couldn’t get any DUMBER, he just prove me wrong. Bitch read what Chris wrote carefully before making a reasonable comment.
oh tell me abt it , here i thought osei has kissed goodbye to stupidy and sensless comments , but boy o boy , i thought wrong again!!!!
@Osei
Just when I thought this Doja bag couldn’t get any DUMBER, he just prove me wrong. Bitch read what Chris wrote carefully before making a reasonable comment. Weapon-X
@weapon -X;indeed,u’re the most ridiculous being i have ever come across.i didnt mean the article was meant for jackie but it was an example i made.
ahaaa osei have come again !
@27 calibre some of your celebrities are mean ,they dont help the poor,i know ghanains are kind people ,but some are mean
i just hope dey r bn generous bcos det really n truly wanna n not 2 show off..its really a blessed thg dat sum ghanaian celebrities r helpin de poor..
hahahahaahahah! omg jackie is looking directly into the camera n posing with a broad smile saying cheeeeeeseeeee its meeeeeee am donatttiinnnnnnnn to the poooooorrrrr!!!!! lmfao. where r all jackie’s supporters?r u guys not seeing her broad smile posing for a shot by the camera?lmfao rotfl….aboaaa fuo
@ladygaga,why do u insult urself as aboaaa fuo ladygaga?
Hahahahhahah you go boy
ahh lady Gaga paaaa! why the heck did you call her that? you need her. You are skull with no brain. Thats what you are/
@maame i promise the others that I wouldn’t insult anyone anymore so I will leave it too you lol
@ ladygaga see what i mean…juss like miss dior would say woy3 against papa…matter of fact woy3 aho)yaa…..333shewoa ko na ko wu…i’m tired of you talkinq rubbish .
I think its a genuine cause…they have the mula (money) so it’s not a problem at all lols
Lmfaojackie is posing for the camera sayin cheeeeseeee am donnatiiiinnnn finally am lookin for Publicity is me jackie againnnn lmfao !cheap advert!hehehhehehe.where is @keke,@ akosua n d rest of her dumb followers who like insultin others n makin jackie feel like she da best wen she is jst like d rest?ya’ll bring it on bitches.@flawless dnt hv ur time hehehhe
i agree
@weapon take it easy bruh it’s not worth it
I guess in some of the celebrities defence, I’m sure the likes of Jackie and co were donating well before they decided to start publicising it in this blatant way. I guess if she and other were a little smarter they wouldn’t make is so darn obvious that they are doing a good deed. It takes away the sincerity of what they are doing when it’s sensationalized like this. But yes Chris is right in the sense that when they do wrong media is there to cover the story so why not allow another side of them to be shown IF this is what they were already doing. I’d be interested to know how long Jackie has been donating or how many times that way I could tell how sincere her motivations are or it will have the opposite effect of what she is trying to achieve i think!
some donations may well be a stunt, but i think bottom line is some kid somewhere gets to eat or some sick person, gets their medical bills cleared. If for these kind gestures, they want CNN or al jazeera to follow them, i dont have an issue with it. cos some of us seem to complain other celebs are stingy. why? cos we dont read or see their faces with bread and gari and the childrens home.
exactly! who cares if the celebs do it for publicity or being geninue. what matters is a kid somewhere goes to bed on a full stomach and with a smile on his face.
@madam social! u r d best of all!dis is exactly wat ve been sayin yet d rest refuse to see my point n they see me as a hater.smh.
this is better than nun,some of the celebrities dont help the poor even though they got the money to ,so i prefer giving to be recognise than nun
They our celebraties are really trying for the under priviledged. God bless each of them who gave out of free-will – John Domelo, Juliet Ibrahim, Jackie tec well done and doing good
osei Reply:February 17th, 2011 at 07:19
“@weapon -X;indeed,u’re the most ridiculous being i have ever come across.i didnt mean the article was meant for jackie but it was an example i made. osei”
Dude, how the FUCK am I the most ridiculous person if we never cross path? Maybe we should cross path somedays and see how the fuck ridiculous I am. cornball!
Stunt or not at least they are giving back. How is this any different from non-African movie stars who do it. Its a win-win, my own regret is that the truely rich in GHana(owners of car dealerships, shopping malls) don’t do enough of this.