Tabloidization of News Media

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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