What Means Media to Me

During my childhood, what I mean is until I learn to read, my relationship with media was only with the television. I had watched cartoon as every children, just for fun. Actually I had watched documentaries about nature or history. I think my affinity of history has started with these documentaries and it can be considered as the first positive effect of media on me.
When I learn to read, I met the historical and the political books which will make me a different person. I read different books, learnt different ideas, and I had a chance to compare what I read and expand my point of view. With these books, I learnt reading by questioning. This ability helped me while I read the essays from newspapers.
I try to get information from every kind of media today, I watch news on the television, I read books and newspapers and I follow the news from the internet. I try to learn everything whether they are true or not. Because at last, I want to decide which news are correct. The relationship between me and media cannot be considered like a relationship between a producer and a consumer. I read all the news from it but I don’t believe all of it.

Media: As Spreaders of Ideas

In an ideal media system, we expect that components of the media give public only what happened, as news. However, we see that today’s specific part of media components represent some kind of ideas, instead just showing news. Since big media companies are owned by some wealthy men or directly founded by them, consequently, we see these media companies as a reflection of their owners’ ideas. For example, a businessman called Cem UZAN was an owner of a TV channel and a newspaper, Star. Before the elections, we saw his ideas’ propaganda from his media foundations. His pictures were in his newspaper; his speeches were between advertisements like a big brand’s advertisements. Even in an ordinary TV show, his ideas were passing through from the bottom of the screen as subtitles. Of course we know that these kinds of media have no trustworthiness at all and I think it is ethically wrong too as well as inaccuracy of the media.
In my opinion, in a country that has a media as spreaders of ideas, we cannot talk about a media 100% reliable. However, I think there are some ways that can help us to find longer paths which can take us to the truth. If there are different sides in media in terms of ideas, we can compare their ideas’ specific points and we can reach an opinion. In this kind of comparisons we decide that one of the ideas which on the media, is more likely than the others and we can have an opinion. On the other hand, I think there some media components that have more reliability than the others. For instance, TV channels may be more reliable than newspapers. Because we can see some outhers’ essay and ideas in newspapers, but in a TV channel, they must be more careful when they are trying to give some kinds of ideas since they are being watched by censorship committee of the government.
Finally, I think our media is not reliable but we can use some methods in order to see the truth.