Can we make a comparison on media outlets?




The main mission of the media should be informing the public rightly. As a result of this, the primary responsibility for the owners of the media establishments should also be related with this mission. However, the managers also have trading, industrial and banking businesses which gives them the opportunity to use media for their own profit. Addition to this, the managers reflect the topics for their own benefit and this makes media became distant from its reliability. Moreover, this situation brings out a competition between media establishments because of the owners who uses their opportunities for their own good. My opinion is that the managers should separate their businesses clearly from media. On the other hand, the other reasons that weaken the reliability of media are giving place to wrong reports and distorting or exaggerating the news in order to raise their rating. Actually the reporters are responsible for this but as they are way too depended to the managers because of money they ignore it. All in all it is hard to make a strict distinction between television, radio or newspapers. That’s because if we look at Turkey today we can see that the majority of television establishments and newspaper establishments have the same owner. Thus, we can say that the organs which are sharing the same owner make the same publishing. Consequently, we can’t compare the reliability of different organs but we can compare the reliability of the establishments.

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  1. on December 5, 2008 at 7:24 am jo Said:

    What i was actually asking you to do here was to actually analyse the content of e.g. a newspaper and see whether it does or does not reflect the ideology of the owner- not just for your comment on the topic. Also what do you mean by the last sentence exactly- which establishments?

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