Tabloidization of News Media

December 29, 2008

This article is one of the best articles i have ever read. When i started to read, i didn’t understand what is this article about because it’s the first time that i saw the term “tabloidization”. After reading some, i understood what does it mean. It’s an important issue in our country, so this article can be very useful. Author explains her argument well i think and she supports her argument with examples and statistics. Also she gives some counter arguments and this helps her to support her argument. The article is not boring and it can be read easily.


Reliability in Turkish Media

December 29, 2008

I see that, Turkish media is criticized by society and i think they are right because day by day, our media is losing it’s realibility.

There are lots of media outlets in Turkey but most of them are under one hand and this person is Aydın Doğan. He also known as “Media King” in our country. His media outlets are looking situations in same perspective. Personally, i don’t read these media outlets because i thinks they don’t publish reality. They always show situations in a way which is beneficial fot them and show them “big”. There are other media outlets too but i think they are not realistic too. We can see lots of difference in one information and rightly, our society don’t believe them. People mostly read newspaper and watch TV channel which is logical for them.

I want to give an example that shows media outlets’ unreality. Before elections, nearly all newspapers made surveys about this elections and all newspapers show results for their “perspective” and “political idea”. None of them show real.

I say they are unrealistic but some of them are more reliability than the others and i read only them because others are trash in my opinion.


My Relationship with Turkish Media

December 29, 2008

My relationship with media is not good but not bad too. Actually i’m not interested in TV last 2 years but before, i was watching TV more. On the other hand, i always read at least one online newspaper in a day. As a result, i have some opinions about media.

On TV, i only watch sport programmes, sometimes news and to be honest, when i get bored, i sometimes watch advertisements. Some things that i see on these programmes makes me angry. For example when i’m watching a football match, there are some advertisement on TV appeared and it really make me frustrated because sometimes it appears on the ball in an important position and i cannot watch it some seconds. Secondly, i see that, in our media, advertisements are really foolish and it makes me to close TV. The biggest problem is about news. I think some news doesn’t show real. Also i want to lighten an important point. At summer there was a bomb exploded and i was watching a programme about it and this programme showed some death people’s photos and i think this is unethical and this makes a negative effect on society.

Lastly, both on TV and newspapers, we can see that a situation can be published in different sides. We cannot know which one is the truth but i think, none of them are true.

But there are some useful and beneficial programs are published too and some programmes are published “unadvertised” and i watch them easily.

Finally, there are negative and positive points too but in my opinion, negavite points are more than the others and this makes me think badly about our media.


Speech to Radio-Television News

December 8, 2008

Firstly, i can’t tell much about this story. To be honest, i can’t understand the main idea. There are lots of reasons for it. In my opinion, it’s a boring article, it’s too long and the language is a bit hard to understand. Because of these reasons, i can’t say more except it’s a boring article.


Television: The Plug-in Drug

December 2, 2008

This story is one of the good stories that i have read. The story has nothing that can make it boring i think. Firstly, it has some quotations from “real society” and this make story readable. It has also some studies and statistics that help quotations. Moreover, i think writer explains her argument well and gives acceptable supports. Lastly, the story is not too long for reader so it’s not much boring.