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.