TheFocusNews
    Facebook Twitter Instagram
    Trending
    • JANDOR UNLEASHES TERROR ON INNOCENT LAGOSIANS.
    • Civil Society Organization Calls for Urgent Police Investigation of Viral Video of Criminality By Political Thugs
    • FUEL AND NEW NAIRA NOTES SCARCITY: FIFTH COLUMNISTS WORKING IN CAHOOTS WITH PDP
    • Osun State Elections Tribunal Nullifies Governor Ademola Adeleke Gubernatorial Victory Due To Over Voting
    • HOW AFRICA CAN FEED ITSELF, PRODUCE SURPLUS FOR EXPORT, BY PRESIDENT BUHARI
    • BUHARI RIDES IN LAGOS TRAIN, AS PRESIDENT INAUGURATES BLUE RAIL LINE, JRANDLE CENTRE
    • The Naja’atu Bala Muhammed We All Know As Director of Civil Society Directorate of APC PCC
    • LEKKI DEEP SEA PORT ROARS TO LIFE AS PRESIDENT BUHARI OBSERVES HISTORIC OFFLOADING FROM CONTAINER SHIP
    Facebook Instagram
    TheFocusNews
    • Home
    • Sports

      PRESIDENT BUHARI MOURNS SOCCER LEGEND, PELE, SAYS HE WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN

      December 29, 2022

      PRESIDENT BUHARI COMMENDS MOROCCAN SOCCER TEAM FOR MAKING AFRICA PROUD

      December 15, 2022

      As Argentina Takes on Saudi Arabia Today in 2022 Qatar World Cup, Lionel Messi says, Diego Will Always Be With Us

      November 22, 2022

      Henry Nwosu: Lagos SWAN applauds Gov. Sanwo-Olu

      November 18, 2022

      PRESIDENT BUHARI REWARDS COMMONWEALTH GAMES, WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS ATHLETES WITH NATIONAL HONOURS, N200 MILLION

      September 16, 2022
    • Politics
      1. Education
      2. View All

      Bamidele Omosehin Empowers Widows, Equips 22 Schools In Ondo

      January 7, 2023

      PRESIDENT BUHARI: AFRICA’S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM MUST GRAVITATE TOWARDS STEM TO ACHIEVE INDUSTRIALISATION BY 2030

      November 28, 2022

      SANWO-OLU, DONS PRAISE PROF. OGUNDIPE, AS OUTGOING UNILAG VC LAUNCHES MEMOIR

      November 11, 2022

      SANWO-OLU MEETS 36 FINALISTS, AS JAKANDE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY TAKES OFF 

      November 10, 2022

      I HAVE SERVED NIGERIANS CREDITABLY, SAYS PRESIDENT BUHARI IN BAUCHI AS HE CAMPAIGNS FOR APC

      January 24, 2023

      LAGOS YAM TRADERS DRUM SUPPORT FOR TINUBU, SANWO-OLU

      January 24, 2023

      Tinubu meets with APC election planning, monitoring teams, charges them to protect party’s votes

      January 16, 2023

      Civil Society Organization Passes Vote of Confidence on INEC on PVC Collection

      January 16, 2023
    • Entertainment
    • Business
    • Education
    • Health
    • International News
    TheFocusNews
    You are at:Home»Opinion»*Arise TV Needs to Rise Above Mediocrity*
    The Media
    The Media

    *Arise TV Needs to Rise Above Mediocrity*

    0
    By TheFocusNews on August 10, 2022 Opinion

    *Arise TV Needs to Rise Above Mediocrity*

     – By Funke Cole. 

    Arise TV, owned by Prince Nduka Obaigbena is fast becoming one medium that panders to mediocrity and shows signs of partisanship truly unbecoming of an organisation that prides  itself as representing Africa’s finest amongst the global media.

    At the risk of being accused of making vacuous pontifications, a few examples would suffice here:

    Majority of the presenters of the station’s popular magazine programmes like The Morning Show, Prime Time News, including Dr. Reuben Abati, ever rambunctious Oseni Rufai, and Charles Aniagolu, to mention just a few, certainly deserve mention here (no pun intended). 

    While I may not be persuaded to do a character portraiture on these individuals, I want to state rather unequivocally here that by their actions and inactions they have willynilly become bad representation of the brand they’re trying desperately to package for the public.

    In a few of these programmes where these three musketeers make appearances as they often do, you can almost hazard a guess about their political leanings, affiliations and biases as the case may be.

    More often than not they mask their actions under the guise of providing scrutiny, setting agenda for public discourse but behind that veneer of defending the so-called public trust they’re really serving the captive audiences what in my view is a cocktail of half truths, and very nuanced viewpoints which not only shows the TV patrons as suffering from collective myopia but further manifest barefaced partisanship, schisms and  acting from the narrow prisms of their paymasters,  who can guarantee where the next meal will come from.

    In what has become their regular stock-in-trade, last Monday’s appearances bear eloquent testimony to my earlier preamble about what the cable television has become:

    During The Morning Show, Rufai, apparently overwhelmed with giddy emotion’s was at his best when he engaged Major-General IBM Haruna(rtd). You could tell from his usual braggadocio that he was trying to force words into the mouth of his guest when he began to harangue President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the latter in a very deriding manner. 

    An untrained mind, not so discerning would have fallen for that clap trap generation of reprobates, and jaundiced critics but thankfully, IBM Haruna, who himself understands the power of sophistry didn’t take all the shit lying down.

    Like the true General he was he didn’t let down his guard one bit. He saw through Rufai’s pretences  and was able to use a tenor of communication that suited the situation. 

    Enter Aniagolu. During the edition of the Prime Time News, he began what could be termed an unnecessary backgrounding skewed largely in favour of his preferred presidential candidate. Playing the judge and jury all at once, he complained about misgovernance, bad leadership under the present administration and prayed the electorate comprising the over 90million registered voters according to the INEC records to go out and vote for his candidate: of course, Peter Obi. And wait for this: his first guest in the show, Dike Chukwumerije, the performance poet and lawyer was also cleverly used by Aniagolu to further drive home his earlier points earnestly. He practically teleguided the poet all through the interface and discussion session so much so that you would think the program was meant to be a political campaign rally for Peter Obi.

    All these was done in a cable news network whose viewership cuts across the globe. Well, some of us saw through the whole facade. This is not how to run a television station, really. Methinks Obaigbena and his ilks need to learn, unlearn and relearn the ethics of broadcasting. In that wise, I urge the National Broadcasting Commission to look at the programmes of Arise TV with a fine tooth comb so as to rescue the TV from the claws of these individuals who if given the opportunity wouldn’t hesitate to turn Nigerians against themselves just for their own selfish ends.

    I beseech the NBC to give this issue a serious thought. This is because the Arise TV and its team are trying to take Nigeria through the Rwanda route. Recall the Rwanda genocide where thousands of lives were decimated as a result of ethnic clashes. The media fueled that war. Never again shall we witness such human catastrophe as happened in Rwanda.

    ©️ Funke Cole

    Share on TwitterTweet
    Previous ArticlePRESIDENCY SEEKS MORE MEDIA PARTNERSHIP IN NATION BUILDING
    Next Article AMERICA’S NEWEST EXPORT: IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS
    TheFocusNews
    • Website

    Related Posts

    The Naja’atu Bala Muhammed We All Know As Director of Civil Society Directorate of APC PCC

    NAJAATU, NAJAATU, HOW MANY TIMES DID I CALL YOU?

    BOLA TINUBU’S RENEWED HOPE – A REVOLUTIONARY SYNERGY OF THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR

    Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

    • Popular
    • Recent
    • Top Reviews
    December 16, 2020

    Serenity at the Beaches of West Coast

    May 19, 2022

    John Cena talks potential return to WWE for his 20th anniversary 

    December 16, 2020

    Four planes to start airlifting Nigerians out of Ukraine

    January 28, 2023

    JANDOR UNLEASHES TERROR ON INNOCENT LAGOSIANS.

    January 28, 2023

    Civil Society Organization Calls for Urgent Police Investigation of Viral Video of Criminality By Political Thugs

    January 27, 2023

    FUEL AND NEW NAIRA NOTES SCARCITY: FIFTH COLUMNISTS WORKING IN CAHOOTS WITH PDP

    9.3
    December 19, 2020

    I see my children as prized possession

    8.9
    December 19, 2020

    Nigeria Needs Peace, Unity –Ex-Head Of State, Gowon

    7.5
    December 18, 2020

    If education is right, Nigeria’ll be alright – Oloyede

    Latest Galleries
    Latest Reviews
    9.3
    December 19, 2020

    I see my children as prized possession

    8.9
    December 19, 2020

    Nigeria Needs Peace, Unity –Ex-Head Of State, Gowon

    7.1
    December 19, 2020

    JAMB, Laments Poor Turnout For UTME Registration, Says No Extension

    Copyright © 2023 TheFocusNews. Powered by TheFocusNes.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.

    WhatsApp us