Turkish Media on Notice
Turkey’s mainstream broadcast media misses the story.
Social explosions sometimes unexpectedly produce multiple outcomes. The first consequence of the demonstrations that erupted from Gezi Park was the realization that Istanbul's media conglomerates no longer were capable of independent news reporting and analysis — and that they had become editorially bankrupt.
May 31 marked the milestone that exposed how those grandiose, pompous buildings of the media that calls itself “mainstream” — whose bosses are engrossed in many other money-making ventures — were devoid of courage, professional perception and ethics.
On that day,the traumatic events in the center of the city had no news value for any of those media channels. While the anger that ignited at Gezi Park was spreading street by street, almost all those channels were airing documentaries or talk shows that had no relevance to the extraordinary story breaking out.
Their editorial choice was a necessity.
