Speaking at the 2nd Anniversary Lecture of the Ghana Journalists Association on Thursday in Accra, Mr Ayeboafoh said if indeed the media was besieged, practitioners would not be able to tell stories of brutalities that have been meted out to them.
He said: "I cannot conclude with certainty or definitiveness that the media are besieged and that the present is not conducive to the practice of journalism in freedom and independence, and this is the basis.
"I think that if you say that media has come under attack, it is different from suggesting that the media have been besieged. Indeed, if you are besieged you have been so incapacitated that you are unable to defend yourself.
You cannot do anything to free yourself. That is the moment of besiegement, and so whiles admitting that there have been attacks on the media, that all of these attacks are unwarranted in the face of the legal regime that we are operating where there is a guarantee of media freedom, It cannot be sustained under any circumstances, right?
"But does that mean that we are besieged? If we are besieged we will not be able to tell some of the stories that we have been telling about the brutalities that have been meted out to us".
Mr Ayeboafoh was addressing the topic: Is the media under siege?.
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