2 marks- 6. Compare different Turkish media outlets (newpapers, television stations, magazines, radio stations)– does the owner have an influence on the content? (who is the owner- is the ideology of the owner reflected in the content?)
Since the last years of 1980’s, media in Turkey has become a significant part in people daily lifes with the appearing new private television channels. Because these channels provide people new entertainment programmes as a result they easily gained these people’s attraction to their tv’s. On the other hand, newspaper propaganda always had happened but tv is much more stronger and much more cruel than other media outlets. In my opinion, every owner has the influence on their media agency. For instance; there was an argument between one of the media boss and Turkish Prime Minister. As a result, they all used their media power. Disstresfully, they made their propaganda even in their TV’s news program!. In newspaper’s, same thing has happened too. They can affect their TV channels so why not they did not affect their newspaper Owing to the fact that; I shocked when I saw media boss’ words with big puntos as a headline in one of honourable accepted by society newspapers. On the other hand, media bosses can affect the position of columnists. Whenever columnists do not write media boss’ opinions, boses could fire them. The example of Emin Çölaşan’s rush from Hürriyet completely fits this situation. He was fired because of his spectations about the media boss.
