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2 marks- 6. Compare different Turkish media outlets– who is the owner- is the ideology of the owner reflected in the content?
Media is one of the most effective things to reflect and broadcast an idea or slogan to the society. In Turkey, media organs shape people’s lifestyle and perspective. There are various kinds of media organs. Each of them has a different message to their audiences. There are two of them which are the most obvious and contrast ones in Turkey. One side supports the religious view and the other one is the republician view. Channel 7 is the channel and Zaman is the newspaper of this religious side. Their owner is the same person, Zait Akman. They always evaluate the events from a single point of view which is obviously based on religion and Kor’an. For example, I have watched a cartoon called “The Smurfs” on Channel 7, I have witnessed the biased perspective. To examplify, some of the characters in the cartoon ask for to do enchantment and one of them tells them that it is a sin to make magic. Actually the original one is not like this. They just use the magic to save their friends, however the cartoon has been changed. The purpose behind this is to give a message to the audience about the obeying to the religious beliefs. In other words, they just want to give the message of going out of the borders of the religion is not a pleasant thing. Besides this, the movies and series that is shown on that channel are strongly based on religion. They just want to lead people through the religion and its orders. The ruler government is a religious party,”AKP”, therefore the newspaper always supports Akp. It is written and commented on good and pleasant things that they have done or they strongly spend an effort on. The aim is to show that Akp is right on the situations especially where society has reclaimations. On the other hand, the owner of the “Cumhuriyet” which is the newspaper of republican side, is Ilhan Selcuk. Actually he represents a group of people who owns this newspaper, he manages the writers. The news and the idea of these writers are against the government. They comment on everything against what the Akp government does. To examplify, even in the sport news, a sport event is linked to Akp in order to blame them and to create an unpleasant picture for the community. To sum up, media organs have some goals and they advance through the future in the wind of their purposes.
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jo
// Jan 2, 2009 at 4:14 am
What about the people who watch these channels (such as 7) but are not aware of the changes that the channels make? I wonder if people think well this is American and they also think like us…so it must be right- or something like that?
In a strange sort of way because there are media outlets for and others against the government there is a sort of democratic platform for ideas- but in a strange way!
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