ANALYSIS OF TURKISH PRESS HISTORY IN TERMS OF MANUFACTURING CONSENT MODEL

Abstract

Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman revealed propaganda model to explain manufacturing
consent. Propaganda model indicates that the mainstream press corporations have deep connections
with the world of politics and business world; and this situation creates great obstacles against
media independence. The content of propaganda model falls under the following headings: The
size, concentrated of ownership, profit orientation; advertising as primary income; the structure of
new sources; flak as a means of disciplining media; anticommunism as a national religion and
control mechanism. In this study, the structure of Turkish press in the historical process is analyzed
in the context of propaganda model. This approach shows that the topics of press’ structure and
freedom of the press can’t be explained without evaluating press’ relations with the world of
politics and business world. Consequently, it is observed that in historical process mainstream
Turkish press corporations have had close connections with the world of politics and business world
circumstantially. It is important to evaluate propaganda model in this study, as this model carries
great importance to explain the problematic of freedom of the press that has becoming a current
issue frequently