Opinions of Friday, 22 August 2003

Columnist: Fukuor, J. A.

Letter From The President (XIV)

Countrymen and women,
This weekend I will be enduring the very unpleasant experience of sitting with more than 200 journalists for the annual Ghana Journalist Association awards ceremony. Journalists!

Hmm, I don’t like that inquisitive, boisterous, talkative and patronizing bunch very much, you know, even though a lot of them are very malleable, acquiescent, impressionable and very ‘bribe-able’. I don’t like to sit down with journalists because they tend to ask too many unintelligent questions that tend to make you talk ‘by heart.’ You see, when a journalist asks you a stupid question, he inflates your ego, tantalizingly offering you an irresistible opportunity to impress everyone around.