Media Worlds Essay

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MEDIA WORLD & CULTURE

The Media World in Today's Culture

The Media World and Today's Culture

The Media World and Today's Culture

The media is the most indispensable medium that most urbanized and developing countries have adapted to accessing first hand and vital information. It is also in the branch category of the most growing industries in today's global economy. However, the industry is faced with controversies from other sectors such as culture and politics. Implications of the social media and media personalties have always been at the limelight, especially with how the youth and children perceive what they see and hear from the media. It is therefore, necessitated to review how the current global culture allows for the continuity of the world of media.

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According to Kaya and Cakmur, media has been a centre-stage in Turkey die to the linkage it has to politics. Turkish media is perceived as a medium to which similarity of political virtue corresponds to the elements broadcasted. Under this notion, its media has strictly been under the watch of what is documented from the media. Kaya and Cakmur assert that the Turkish government has considered the centrality of social issues.
As the media industry grew in the region, so did the privatization of the industry. However, this never allowed for the mitigation of political parallelism. The Turkish private media undertook the opportunity to attack the country's political arena. However, the government took the incentive in the early 1990 to media control but culturally, the division that its media industry is central to political strife and competition (Kaya and Cakmur 2010).

The media has undergone tremendous transformation in Greece, Turkey, and Latin America. This transformation has been largely influenced by the emergence of free markets. Before the 1980s, these countries media world was state-owned and controlled. These economies at that time were centralized and the military had great influence on the media. However, free market economy has seen an emergence of privately owned TV stations and newspapers. This democratization of media has been perceived to spearhead changes in oppressive legal structures that were present during the era of monopolies by the state. However, the lack of these states to curb commercialization of the media led to tabloid reporting by journalism while the real issues, referred simply to as "hard" news, was disregarded by….....

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