So in Ghana, everything must be provided by the government—including journalistic coverage structures of events such as the Independence Day?
I have seen several people commenting on photos of Ghanaian journalists packed at the back of a tipper truck on social media—somewhat upset that the government asked them to jump on that for proper coverage of Ghana’s 59th Independence Day Celebration.
What’s the government’s fault in this? NONE.
I do not know how journalism is done and which media houses these journalists work for in Ghana, but I can share a bit of my experience out here and the events I have covered as a press person in Europe—I mean how journalism is done out here to the best of my knowledge.
Let me start with the annual Cannes Film Festival; last year, over 4000 Journalists and Film Critics gathered in Cannes, France, for the annual film festival. And as usual, just like the last 5 years, I was one of them, from my own little media house, GhanaCelebrities.Com.
Getting a Press accreditation to Cannes is like trying to buy cocaine in heaven, but that’s a different story for another day.
At Cannes, I saw Hollywood Reporter journalists, TMZ, BBC, NY Times, Chinese Media,the Guardian, Mail Online, RT, Aljazeera and all the big media houses you can think of.
Here is the point; these media houses provided their own coverage structures—the various paparazzi had their own tall standing tables.

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