The painful state of the media
What we have before us is a society which has given itself up to mass popular culture. It is very clear that any ties that this society forms with reality after this point are going to be laden with problems.
Just as Turkish cinema used to turn out the same films over and over, saying “the Turkish people just don’t understand anything else,” the Turkish media once again now condemns the people of this nation to the same fate by approaching news with an increasingly simplistic and cheapened attitude. This is a dramatic process which will result in the media thinking that society has no ability to criticize or that they are dealing with a robotized society of people. There is a well-known Latin saying, “Corruptio optimi pessima,” or “corruption of the best is the worst of all.” In Turkey, though, something even worse is happening: The good is being corrupted and the vehicle for that corruption is the enlightened themselves!
17 May 2008, Saturday
HASAN BÃœLENT KAHRAMAN, SABAH
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