As the author mentioned, after the third military coup, of 1980, the public were discouraged from discussing politics, but encouraged to discuss more on religion and popular culture. Before that, there were great discussions between leftist and rightist militancy. In fact, discussion was a very little part of the problems between them. It was more like a war. So before this coup, politics was so common in media and in a violent way. There was not much tabloidization as we have today. Because people used to read things which support their ideas. There is not a big gap like that now and visual effects, good qualitified of publishing and press in the newspapers etc. now have a great affect and importance on people. The article gives two names as an example; Ali Kırca and Reha Muhtar who are the anchormans. Their movements from a channel to another made great changes for channels. Why are the programmes like televole so popular? Because it seems so active and enjoyable with quailitified effects. So, according to me, main thing here is good advertising in politics or whatever the issue is. If channels are good at advertising by visual effects, using important people like Ali Kırca; they are becoming more popular. What we must concentrate on is that this tabloidization can cheat people so dangerously, it can block our attentions to politics, real situations in the country or guide us to some big powerful people’s ideas by using those fascinating features of technology in television or radio or newspaper. As a result, we must be so careful and selective about this cheating media, we cannot just rely on their reputed quality because they are so proffesional in their jobs.
Tabloidization of News Media
December 31st, 2008 · No Comments
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