It Is A Choice

It is not wrong to descrive ‘media’ as a growing field today. We have so many different channels, magazines, newspapers…etc. But the question is how reliable are they and how do we judge it?

Over the bayram holiday I have tried to follow different media outlets and saw that their publication/broadcast is highly related with their owners. I could only analyzed KanalD, NTV, TV7, ATV, SesTV, Star and also some newspaper Sabah,Milliyet and Hürriyet, just for a short time but the results were interesting.

According to my personal observations, ATV, Sestv and TV7 don’t have neutral broadcasts. Even though unemployment is a big issue in these days we could not see news and reports about eunemployment on these channels as we see on the others. There is also another example of ‘Ergenekon’ which is a very important case and takes recenntly a huge part on the media lately. We all know that there is also the ‘Deniz Feneri Case’ going on at the same time but these channels show their sides on this too and does not really adress the ‘Deniz Feneri’ while they bring the ‘Ergenekon’ foreground. I could see no other reason but relate these with the owners of these broadcasting companies. To be close to the government, these people have sides on their channels and it is unexpected for us to trust these media outlests.

On the other hand as I watch the NTV, I have seen that it’s broadcast is more reliable. The news were short, there was no such pointless talking under the name of ‘news’. Not only the local issues but also the news from the world take place and celebrity news take place on the second hand.

As you may know, NTV has also a radio broadcast and we could listen people with different point of wiews in those open court programmes. This is important for being neutral and it makes the broadcast more reliable.

It is also same for the newspapers. When we look at the news on KanalD and Star for example it could be surprising to see that Hürriyet, Milliyet and Posta have the same kind of news. All these belong to the same company and the reason they make adherent news was because of the personal benefits. This also brings out the question; are the poeple who follow these also wants to take sides? The same issue is valid for ATV and Sabah, two media outlets of the same person.

To sum up, even it is good to have options of media distributing different ideas, it is also a fact that broadcasting companies do really work beneficial. It a choice to get effected from these or to be aware of the neutrality of the media outlets we follow.

1 comment December 15, 2008