With
the forced migration of traditional media to the internet environment, rating
competition in televisions and circulation competition in newspapers have
become the competition of being the most-clicked on the internet. In fact, this
competition was seen as a struggle to survive for news sites. However, this
approach worked up producing/making news with the “no matter how, as long as it
is clicked” logic in internet journalism. Especially headlines were started to
be created in a way which threaten, frighten and cause concern in the reader,
beyond arousing curiosity. Unfortunately, this understanding meant ignoring the
journalism principles and ethical orders as well as deceiving the readers. In
these kind of news reports which are produced with the concern of being widely
clicked and read, readers are literally forced to read those news reports since
an expectation is created for them by using titles that are more assertive than
it already is, which generally address to the feelings of the reader and
discuss subjects that are controversial in terms of newsworthiness. In the
news, frightening, worrisome, disconcerting and over-thrilling language and
wording are used as well as misleading information and noncompliance between
the title and the content. The news reports that are produced with this
understanding deceive the readers and discredit internet journalism and
internet news.
The
aim of this study is to put forward the creation of a new journalism
understanding which frightens, almost threatens and causes worry in the reader
(compels them to read) in internet journalism. Within the scope of the
research, 5 most followed internet sites in Turkey, according to the web
traffic measurements of Alexa (Top Sites in Turkey) for December 2018, were
monitored for 2 months. The compliance between the titles and news reports in
these news sites were analyzed along with the language and wording, by
examining certain news reports that are created and
published in a way which threatens, frightens, causes anxiety or worry in the
reader. The literature related to the subject was utilized as well.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Sociology |
Journal Section | Articles |
Authors | |
Publication Date | March 31, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 |