In my opinion this comparision can not be made unless a person have a chance to see all of the media outlets by themselves and think over them. There are many “low rated” media objects in the world as well as in Turkey. However not all, actually only the good ones can be visualized world-wide. Only the ones which can be powerful (in this I accept that only that power can be attained by good work, not only the money that they have from beginning or the one that they earned by doing something else) can go outside of their area and be able to contact with other cities aswell.
Let’s consider two good newspapers that we all might know. Hürriyet and the Times are good at their jobs which can be told by the works they achieved. However what I can say about these two are obvious. Although they provide good and true information about what is happening around, in Hürriyet there are many information which can be considered as unnecessary. We all know it as 3. page and it makes people nervous and unhappy for no reason. There can be some warnings in there which will make people know about those facts but showing the results of it, mostly death, makes people’s lives even worse. However in most of foreign newspapers you can not obverse them that often. In my opinion some people who can actually work on it and handle the situation must have the power to see those instead of all.
That’s my only concern about the difference in Turkish and foreign media. Other than that considering the fact that creating media have some unseen rules and exceptancy in common, all of them try to fulfill it as much they can.
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jo
// Jan 8, 2009 at 8:47 am
Good points- I am surprised to see Hurriyet compared with Times though- not that I think Times is that great as it is quite conservative.
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