MEDIA DISCOURSE, IDEOLOGY AND PRINT MEDIA IN TURKEY

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 53 - 62, 01.05.2018

Begüm Burak

https://doi.org/10.17932/IAU.EJNM.25480200.2018.2/2.53-62

Abstract

This
article addresses power, ideology and media context generally. .In democratic
countries, the free media is regarded as the “fourth estate” besides the
legislative, executive and judiciary branches. It can be said that political
power has a significant role in shaping media discourse. The newspapers as the
most efficient print media elements have an effective role in media discourse.
Besides determining political agenda, the newspapers function as the instrument
of hegemony of the political authority. The objective of this article is
two-fold. The first is to analyze the role of the media discourse in the
(re)production of ideologies. Within this framework, the role of the media in
democratic countries will also be under scrutiny. Second,a historical overview
of Turkish print media in general and the Hürriyet newspaper in particular will
be provided. Bourdieu argues that, the power of the words lies not in their
intrinsic qualities but in the belief that they are uttered by authorized
spokespersons (Bourdieu, 1991: p.170). In this context, one of the main
arguments of this article is that the Hurriyet newspaper as one of the leading
voices of the mainstream media is efficient in determining the political and
social agenda. The qualitative research method is used in the article.

Keywords

Ideology, power, media, media discourse, , print media in Turkey

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