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  The Turkish media always give you the impression of an unpleasant joke. You hear it until the end but you never get to laugh to it. It is the general state of mind that I get from absolutely from every single channel. Sure I do not see all of them bias but in the end of the day, all the thing that they said, leaves a bitter taste in your mouth.

  In Turkey we always approached the media with good intentions but all we get was misguidance in every single domain of our daily lives. Now we came to a point where we can’t trust them , and that’s why we have second thoughts about their news their programs. I think that it is shame for Turkish Media to look like a two-faced liar in the eyes of public. Of course they earned their reputation by giving us false information about the facts and we still think they owe us a apology for all their faults.

  Having multiple media outils is a major source of mistrust in public and it is one of the biggest problems in our country. For example, as you all know Aydın Doğan owns a variety of media companies, which I don’t recall each one of them, and he begins to manipulate them all to construct a media consensus on the event that he needs the public support. Also his power in media may be considered as a “monopoly” which can bring down his rivals of any kind.

  Of course there is no need for being so negative about it, because there are also some good things happening on TV. There is the NTV channel network which is a better news group. It gives me the impression of being an honest media group.

  But unfortunately,, the mainstream news media is in the hands of monopolistic media moguls and they seem to dominate the ratings. But this not just endemic for our country, it is a widespread problem in every country who has the elements of media.

  As I recall, it all started when I was 7 years old. At that time I was going to primary school and I was watching TV with almost all of my spare time from school. That was also not the best thing that a child could do but back then it was impossible to get the TV away from the kids. I was a great fan of cartoons which had the influence of a lifetime during our childhood. I remember, in those days that the kids at that age should go to bad early because of their daily routines. But it was very frustrating for a child to leave their TV set when the grown up movies are about to start. It was the brightest moment in every child’s life to stay up late and watch a real film. At that time in Turkey, most of the families didn’t have the satellite dishes for foreign broadcasts and we were dependent for our Turkish channels to see some decent programs. As I said, there was this TV channel named STAR and it had a prime time movie period called “The Parliament Cinema Club” and they were broadcasting top rated films such as: Back to the Future, Batman, Rocky, Rambo, Terminator, Ghost Busters…etc. It is still a phenomena for our generation who made their first touch with media.

  After this glamorous period, my football fanaticism started. We hooked up a satellite dish to receive game broadcasts and from the age of 11 I give my spare times to football which is more than just a game for me. In the long run, sure there are some changes in my relationship with media but in the end TV was the most influential media instrument for my life and my journey through media is still done by just watching my favourite shows on TV.

In today’s globalized world, we now have the acces to almost every single event by any means necessary. Or we just think that we are capable of having the truth. Nowadays, media offers us to see the news but they also tell us how to look upon it. There is also our main subject, the tabloidization of media which is a major problem in the daily lives of us, the so-called “qualified viewers”. We now came to a point where we cant seperate human interest subjects and political or international news in media corporates. In Turkey, we simply had our transmssion to private channels in 1990, which can be considered late comparing to USA and EU Countries and through this monopolitical tv system Turkish people only had the opportunity to see the only one side of the story from the eyes of a strict gouvernement television. From 1990, we have a bunch of private channel networks, but in the end they all have the same problem since they all are the products of the same system. Turkey has a deep military coup history and these periods also changed the entire tv system in news. The freedom of expression has damaged. Instead we have more low level “televole” news which focuses on celebrities life and sports instead of politics. Sure, there a few numbers of channels who has a bit more serious broadcasting mentality but the problem itself is beyond their abilities. So as I said, the news have the misison to depoliticize it’s viewers and so far they seem to accomplish their missions.

As for me, I still try to reach for the most reliable news source, but in the end I keep on watching our channels for the sake of old anchorman and a real comedian “Reha Muhtar”!

The media was always present in the lives of humans but it didn’t have the impact to change the familial ties till the invention of a device called “TV”. This new product started to have a lot of influence in homes and with it’s rise in the early fifties it invaded the families leisure time by hypnotising them through the silver screen. Back in the fifties, the idea of having a tv could bring the family members closer to each other, but as the multiple tv sets entered into houses, they seemed to generated a disorder through the family space. Each member of the family started to watch whatever their choices were and it caused the isolation between the members of the household.

I think it was from that moment that, the TV captured all human beings, seperated from each other,and turned them into mindless zombies. In the article, the writer tries to show us how TV changed or ruined our daily lives and the concept of nuclear family.The TV’s seem to be the one of the main reasons for the disappearence of family rituals and bonds. But however, there are whole lot of reasons to blame as the writer mentioned in her article.

The story is based on a couple who seems perfect from the outside but deep down inside they’ve some unsolved matters between them. The situation itselfs represents the silence before the storm. Once the radio starting to invade their home, Irene got caught listenning the private conversations of their neighbours. Due to their monotonous social life, she tries to find the excitement ,that lacks in her personal relationship with her husband, outside her marriage. By that, a whole new world became avaliable for Irene and that makes her the potential addict for spying on their neighbours.

Back in those days, the radio was the ultimate media portal of the the world and it was a necessity for the homes. We see the effects of media in a much more primitive manner but it’s still have a serious damage on people’s daily lifes. With acces to the whole appartement, Irene became addicted to the the lifes of the residents. Towards the end of the story, she is almost living the exact same moments with her neigbours and she actually started to worry about their daily problems. But suprisingly she collide with those kind of problems with her husband. It was the right moment for them to realise that they were not the perfect couple and they could have the exact same problems like their neighbours.

The film is based on the surroundings of a family which has some deep issues about their relationship with each other. The family consists of an overworked mother named Sherly, her brother, Frank,her husband Richard and his father Edwin and of course the two kids.

The family is actually a nuclear family but since his attempted suicide, Frank is temporarily living with her sister. In addition to this, there is also another relative, Edwin whose recently kicked out from a retirement home due to taking heroine. The house has a chaotic athmosphere and the family members are completely isolated from each other. Everyone seems to be headed in different directions and their relations are limited. There are marginal family figures such as a foulmouthed grandpa who use drugs and the gay uncle who tries to end his life. The father figure in the film Richard, has a failing career as a motivational speaker and he takes out his disappointmnets from the other members of the family. The mother however, is the secret figure of authority and she tries to do her best for keeping things peaceful under their roof. Sheryl’s son from a previous marriage Dwayne, is a teenager who has taken a vow of silence until he can accomplish his dream of becoming a test pilot. He doesn’t care about the things going around the house but he has a close relationship with his step sister Olive who’s seven years old and tries to go to a beauty contest in California.

The plot is based on the challange to go all the way to California for Olive who wants to participate to a contest called “Little Miss Sunshine”. During their trip, the family has plenty of conflicts but they always find a way to smooth things up.

The idea of marriage was a little blur for the audience but there isn’t a close relation between them. The financial problems of Richard spoil their relations and everytime they try to have a conversationi they ended up fighting. The idea here is that, two people sharing a household but having a distant relation due to various reasons.

The family has a significant role in the movie because during their never ending road trip, they ended up, getting to learn about each other’s feelings and that was a big step for their reconcile.

The family has plenty of conflicts with each other. For example, Richard always picks on his stepson, Dwayne, accusing him of being an odd teenager. He also criticize Frank and claiming that he is quitter for the reason that he tried to commit suicide. Also Richard’s failing career is always at the center of the problems that he have with his wife, Sheryl. In fact all these problems are present during the entire movie. But at the end of the movie they all tried to put aside their differences just to get along with each other. These conflicts generally affects Olive, the 7 year old daughter, who is very sensitive for these problems.

There isn’t a divorce in the family.

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