Journal of Advances in Humanities and Social Sciences
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Journal ISSN: 2414-3111
Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.20474/jahss-5.6.2
Received: 2 October 2019
Accepted: 5 November 2019
Published: 23 December 2019
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  • Manipulation of television news and its effects on democracy


Gönül Cengiz, Nevin Arvas

Published online: 2019

Abstract

This article attempts to examine the role of the politician and the TV as a media form and their effect on society in terms of various cases as instances from the political landscape. By having several assessments on the picked instances with the help of some references, the article aims to critically discuss the citation as "Popularization of politics and tabloidization of TV go hand in hand." Beyond these evaluations, the article aims to reach some consequences related to the effects of this reality on society and opinion forming. The case study method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used to make data analysis of the case studies that constitute the research area. Based on these cases, insights are provided that might help understand the significance of media in media.