Turkish society on the third page

Abstract

Profession of journalism, in its historical process, is a business that serves to provide social unity by informing and instructing society, manufacturing public opinion and transferring culture. At the present day, mass newspapers which belong to community company media with a hedonist publishing view that directs human’s weaknesses and foibles play along with those have the power doing publishing through socio-demagogically the lowest part of the society people. Instead of news they give cursory and useless information in a wide section of fields which is called infotainment (information and entertainment).  For community company media not only the masses and what they think and also the news do not have any importance or value. Their aim is only to get higher profit. So that, they use violence and sexuality as an exploitation material to sustain its rating/circulation. Moreover, they corporate with the dominant power for it to maintain its hegemony over culture and its reproduction.