Tabloidization of News Media

Posted on December 30, 2008 by forthesakeofeuphemism.
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In today’s world, we always leave the TV turned on, and we are always able to find an entertainment on it, whatever the program is, to get our attention. When the televisions first came to Turkey, there was only one channel, which was TRT, and no competition. With the entering of other TV channels into the media competition, we became able to choose what we wanted to watch. To become most watchable channel, they started to ‘make up’ some false news. This made the news to lose their function of informing and teaching people, and “to lose its content and being tabloidized”. This ‘phenomenon’ has to be searched.

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The competition of TV Channels

Posted on December 17, 2008 by forthesakeofeuphemism.
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The aim of the existence of TV , from the time it invented, is to teach something to people, to illuminate them. In the past, when the TV first came to the houses in Turkey, there was only one TV Channel called TRT, which did not give people any chance to decide what they were watching. However, today we have lots of different channels. For example, there is Digiturk, which has an advertisement for its own like “Digiturk; the TV, which shows you what you want to see at that moment”. There are maybe different  types of thousands channels like documantary, entertainment, news, music, movie channels etc. So people are free to choose, but due to the competition between these channels, the quality of all of them is decreasing day by day. Although there are lots of different opportunities to watch, nearly none of them is worth to watch.

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To be with a TV or not to be with a TV?

Posted on December 2, 2008 by forthesakeofeuphemism.
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My grandfather once told me the day he bought a television and brought it to home. I really got excited, while I was listening to him. He said that he was one of the first ones who bought it and before that they were sitting in the living room and listening to music on the radio. My grandmother added that while they were listening to the music, they were able to talk to eachother and to see their faces. However, with the existence of television, they just started to ignore the others excepts the ones who are on the television. They actually start to ignore themselves do, as we are doing now. At home, my family have always something to watch on the TV. It doesn’t matter whether it is a soap opera or a documentary, I know that they are going to prefer to watch it. This is why I sometimes go in front of the TV and tell the thing, which I want to share with them, to break their connection with the TV and to make them to listen to me.

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