İstanbul Arel Üniversitesi İletişim Çalışmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Kenan DUMAN

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Environmental journalism,News broadcasting,Agenda setting,Environmental awareness and media,Green-focused journalism

Özet: From the past to present, the media has one of the most important roles in increasing public awareness within the framework of its informative function. This role, which started with the printed media, continued on the radio and television field with the development of technology. After 1980, while the television world with the satellite and cable technology met the thematic channels, thematic television channels aiming at certain target audience were established in Turkey in the last period of the 1990s. In general, news televisions are expected to broadcast more programs encouraging public service responsibility and positive social behaviors. Among these social behaviors, there will also be programs that will help to create public understanding of the environmental issues. Environmental news is expected to take place in the media for both stimulating and activating the public on finding a solution to the issue. In this study, the level of the importance given to the environmental programs by the television channels in Turkey was determined and media coverage of environmental program during prime time was analyzed. For this purpose, monthly broadcasting stream between 01.03.2015 and 30.03.2015 of the news channels which lead according to the audience measurements (NTV-TRT Haber-Haber Türk-CNN Türk) were analyzed with the content analysis method. As a result of the study, it was found out that the environment programs in news televisions are very low compared to other broadcasting stream and this situation revealed that also the news channels in Turkey carry out a broadcasting stream process closed to the alternative broadcasting policies.  

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