No Risk No Gain
To begin with tabloidization and infotainment have brought fresh faces to the media. In my opinion they are not dangerous or against democracy as the experts state. They are the inventions of the modernization. I believe in that there should be more option to choose for a more democratic system. And tabloidization is one of the big supporters of this democratic system. There should be serious political, serious news channels but besides those, tabloid types of programs are needed. Another perspective to look from is that people watch the celebrities, their luxurious life style and their enormous wealth exc. There are both advantages and disadvantages of this. An individual see the beautiful things that the celebrities consume, and he/she desires to consume them too. So that he/she start to work hard in order to afford them. On the other hand, this luxurious life style triggers a rebel which may cause a tending towards communism. As I stated before, there both positive and negatives sides of this, but the crucial point is that there will be no gain without taking any risks.
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jo
// Dec 31, 2008 at 3:53 am
This is an interesting point but you are assuming that there is an alternative to tabloid style news. In Turkey, as Bek points out in her article there is NTV and CNN turk (and may be another channel or two) which could be characterized as partially ’serious’ news channels but she adds that these are also partially tabloid in their style as well. Thanks
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