Management of electronic media asked to do away with profanity

The managements of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and private television and frequency modulation (FM) stations have been called upon to stop airing profane music and films.

Mr Opoku Agyemang Prempeh, Managing Director of Lakayana Company Limited, a general building firm in Kumasi, made the call in an interview with the GNA in Kumasi.

He said the rapid spread of the HIV/AIDS and general increase in immorality could be traced to bad music played by the FM stations and foreign films shown on the television screens.

Most of the films shown are foreign and tend to portray cultures based on permissiveness that extol violence and sexual promiscuity under misconceived concepts of individual freedoms.

He said though a certain level of indiscipline existed in the system it had not reached such alarming proportions.

Mr Prempeh, who is also the Vice-Chairman of the Ashanti Region branch of the Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors (ABCEC), said the

proliferation of FM and TV stations has unleashed on the country a furore of western ways of doing things.

He said since the youth are impressionable, they develop affection for crime, indiscriminate sex and disrespect for authority and the aged.

Mr Prempeh stressed that the managements of the electronic media should not allow the profit motive to blind them to their role of educating people in a more positive direction to enable them to contribute towards national security and development and building a disciplined nation.

He suggested to the FM and TV stations play music and show films that edify society and instil sound and decent morals in the youth to prepare them adequately for leadership roles in the future.