Reproduction of Violence in the Media: A Review on Turkey's Main News Bulletins

Abstract

In the daily life, the media is a concept that gives direction to life and affects society from every direction. Media tools has been published with anxiety of economic and political concerns. This anxiety arises from the ideology, and according to this media is in the process of reproduction. In this framework, one of the reproduced concepts emerges as violence. Violence is often seen as a concept that often appears in the main news bulletins of television channels. The channels reproduce violent incidents according to their own ideological structures and present them to their target groups; because the television appeals to a large crowd, the influence is quite high. The universe of work is the main news bulletins. As a sample, main news bulletins of Kanal D, Kanal 7, Show TV and NTV between 07.11.2017 and 11.11.2017 were followed and related news were analyzed by discoursing analysis method and it was tried to be determined how violence incidents were regenerated.