By Kenneth Atisele Juliet Ibrahim has lashed out at Tv stations in Ghana for paying too much attention to entertainment at the detriment of social issues. Photo: Juliet Ibrahim Ghanaian actress, Juliet Ibrahim isn’t happy with local television stations in her country and she is not keeping quiet about it. In an interview with Graphic Showbiz, the pretty actress blamed the media, especially TV stations, for dedicating majority of their airtime to entertainment related issues rather than supporting causes that are developmental in nature. ‘Newspapers and online media are very supportive of my charity projects and television stations provide support to some extent but when you expect them to play education materials about an issue that is affecting the health of Ghanaians for example, they refuse to do so and that baffles me a lot,’ she said. Juliet, who also criticised Ghana media houses for focusing too much on music and politics, added: ‘People are dying from many preventable diseases. If the television stations could spare let’s say about 15 minutes of their air time every day to broadcast a documentary about cleanliness, it will go a long way to help prevent some of these illnesses.’...
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