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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.
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.
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.
In Turkey, for a certain period, we used to have reality programs on TV. Lots of people really watch them. Unfortunately, I was one of them. I didn’t think about the ‘thing’, that pushed me to watch them, until now. I think that I wanted to isolate myself from the fasads, from the masks, from the pretendeces. So, with the will of tasting some reality, these types of TV programs were my places to escape. I really started to meet with these people, who were locked in a house to compete with the others. I started to find our similarities, and started to identify myself with them, since the real life was not real enough and we were just pretending. Also I was sick of seeing the make-ups instead of seeing people in their pajamas naturally.
The need of being addicted to something effects sometimes the lives of the people in a bad way. In the daily world, all of us are under the control of media. The first thing we do when we come to home is to turn on the TV or radio. It is not just to learn some informations about the important events occurring all around the world, it is also because of our curiosity about the lives of others. Irene uses the radio to get some information about their neighbours, when she finds out that radio is broadcasting the voices of her neighbours. She gets curious and becoms addicted to it, because she doesn’t not hear just their voices, she hears “demonstrations of indigestion, carnal love, abysmal vanity, faith, and despair”. After the repairman comes and fixes the radio, she and her husband starts to argue. When they lost the connection between the media, the thing they are addicted to, they also start to live like the others. When we get rid of the radio, we left with the ‘reality’.
The problem in the relationship between Kitty and her father is not just the teenage period Kitty living in. I think that her father’s behaviors cause transforming of the normal teenage conflicts into unadjustable problems. Five-years-old girl enjoys playing “the hairs of the noses”, but there is no possibility that fifteen-years-old teenage loves playing it. He doesn’t accept that she is a teenage. Maybe we can say that Kitty’s father doesn’t want her to grow up, always wants to control her. He doesn’t accept her choices, he also doesn’t like her ability to make her own decisions. This is why they can’t communicate. Their frequencies are different.
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