Feature by Etsey Atisu On Sunday, August 25, 2024, when the Vice President of Ghana, who also doubles as the Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), , was meeting the media at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra, some social media users had, among others, one very interesting question to ask. The question was, 'Is it the journalists who are clapping?' - reflective of the fact that in such a meeting, the practice would not have been to see or hear people clapping, because, as it is, these are journalists who should only be there to hold duty-bearers to account, not 'celebrating' them, as it were. It would later turn out that the people who were actually clapping were the other government officials in the room with the journalists, and the other sympathisers of the NPP therein gathered. But they were not the only praise-singers of the NPP leader, or of the party, as the ensuing engagements later proved when some journalists openly did the mouthpiece jobs for the ruling political party. , by this article, looks back on that historic encounter, reflecting on the group of journalists classified here as 'praise-singers in journalistic cloaks,' plus the majority who went there to just seek answers, as is the trademark of their professions. Let's begin with the class of journalists who asked the 'tough' questions.