DOI: 10.5176/2335-6618_1.1.3
Authors: Prof.Dr.Füsun Alver, Assoc. Prof. Şebnem Çağlar
Abstract:
The reason why the field of journalism is mostly studied with an emphasis on its relationships with political and economic domains in Turkey is that it is in a relationship of mutual dependence with these domains. Starting from 1980, when liberal economic policies began to be implemented, the relationship between journalism and economics tended towards a
trend of complicated development. The acquisition of newspapers operating as small-scale business enterprises by business men from different sectors of the economy who made them part of groups and the resulting inclination toward horizontal, vertical and transversal concentration as well as the relationships that newspapers establish with agents of political
power in order to attain their economic goals put limitations on the freedom and the quality of newsmaking processes. Within this framework, this study aims to analyze the effects of the economic development in Turkey over time and the interests of the capitalist owners of big media organizations as major players in the economy on the field of journalism by using an argumentative method.
Keywords: Media Groups in Turkey, The Power Struggle among media groups, Journalism in Turkey
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