Morning Shows Hate the Arts - Kwame Dadzie

I remember I wrote on this topic when most morning show hosts made Christiana Love (now Obaapa Christy’s) divorce case their daily bread. In that article, I bemoaned the act of morning shows for discussing entertainment stories on their mediums only when they are negative.
  

Recently, it has resurfaced. Someone should tell those morning show presenters and their producers that they are enemies of the arts. After Chris Brown came to Ghana to take huge sum of money and to corrupt our society, morning shows decided to pick the issue as topic for discussion.
   

My problem is not about condemning what is wrong. My problem is why they go mute on entertainment when something good happens in this turf.
   

Since the morning is the peak for most radio stations, it means programmes at that time command wider listenership. Again, these are the shows most of our leaders and influential people in the country listen to, which means issues discussed at this time have greater impact and hearing than others. But it is usually politics, commerce, agriculture, energy and sports that are mostly talked about.
   

If you hear them talking about entertainment, it is either Agya Koo has been arrested for visa racketeering, Christiana Love is divorced or Chris Brown smoked weed on stage.
  

So they mean they never heard of the 3million Ghana cedis given the arts by the government? Couldn’t they have used their platforms to say, find out how the budget money was going to be shared equitably among stakeholders of the arts, considering that last year the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) arrogated all the 2million cedis to itself?
  

There was a music week celebration during the week. Do they mean they didn’t hear of that too? Why do they always want to magnify the negatives and leave the positives? Bernard Avle of Citi FM and Adakabre Frimpong Manso of Adom FM are the main culprits of this practice. If they won’t hit the positive sides, they shouldn’t discuss the negatives at all.
  

I am still looking forward to seeing which radio station will start doing a complete entertainment morning show, with proper entertainment discussions like they do at Asempa for sports.
   

My ears and eyes are widely open and all my senses are active. I will be back!