{"id":78218,"date":"2025-05-11T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/what-makes-ghanas-courtroom-radio-shows-so-compelling-the-listening-post\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:43:57","slug":"what-makes-ghanas-courtroom-radio-shows-so-compelling-the-listening-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/what-makes-ghanas-courtroom-radio-shows-so-compelling-the-listening-post\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes Ghana\u2019s courtroom radio shows so compelling? | The Listening Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are dealing with something personal and painful \u2013 a broken marriage or a family dispute \u2013 you might <!--more--> turn to a friend. For something as serious as sexual assault, it might go to trial. But in Ghana, more and more people are turning somewhere else: live radio. <\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cjustice-style\u201d shows promise swift, public resolutions. But they are also controversial, with critics accusing them of turning private pain into primetime theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<br \/>\nGeorge Sarpong \u2013 Executive secretary, National Media Commission<br \/>\nMenenaba \u2013 Ghanaian writer<br \/>\nOheneni Adazoa \u2013 Host, Sompa Nkomo Show<br \/>\nZakaria Tanko Musah \u2013 Lecturer in media law and ethics, Journalism Institute<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ajlisteningpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ajlisteningpost<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJListeningPost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJListeningPost<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ajlisteningpost.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ajlisteningpost.bsky.social<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ajlisteningpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/x.com\/ajlisteningpost<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.threads.net\/<\/a>@ajlisteningpost<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/aje.io\/upic5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/aje.io\/upic5<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/the-listening-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/the-listening-post\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#ghana   #africa     #africanews    #news #aljazeeraenglish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are dealing with something personal and painful \u2013 a broken marriage or a family dispute \u2013 you might<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}