ENGLISH 101

I remember my childhood. My father or mother wakes up 3 a.m. because of my wishes which is related to watching tv. At that time, I am really enjoyed with music channels. I liked to singers and instead of sleep, I watched music videos. However, if I compare the my childhood period and my adolescence period, there is a huge distinction between them. When I started to high school which is a boarding school, I could not have time to watch tv. Our lessons were very difficult, so people should focus on them to be a successful. I was back my home in weekend. These periods, I had an opportunity to watch tv. However, after fifteen, I never sit the armchair in order to watch specific programmes. If I have free time, sometimes I concentrate on TV. The reasons of it, I think very reasonable. Firstly, the quality of media does not seem useful, and they do not have good features. For example, in mornings, many TV channels’ programmes are related to love, marriage, etc. Is it logical? Can people fall in love in TV? Can they marriage? The only purpose of owners is an increase in rating. Thus, they try to be stranger because society look at new, interesting things. Apart from this, magazine programmes. I can not say I never watch it. I know it is a waste of time but sometimes people need to watch this type of programmes in order to escape daily life’s stress, responsibility. Finally, sometimes, I watch eenage soap-operas. I think, they are funny. May be i like it because, they are related to my age period, and its problems, amusements.

As we watch, in Turkey, they are a great deal of television channels. One of them is TRT which strictly depend on government. I think, this TV channels is affected by today’s Turkish government. Actually, I have not an enough time to watch tv. However, according to my general idea, infrastructure of TRT has started to change. Of course, it is controversial but I think, religion, and ecclesiastical view have become more dominant in TRT’s programmes’ characteristic. When the other channel’s started their broadcast, TRT’s watchers have already decreased. They have watched other channels but in today, I think, TRT address some part of society, so people, who think like in TRT’s programmes, can focus on this channel. As i said before, religious views are dominated in TRT, if we compare the past. However, because these programmes can affect people who, have a same opinion or different opinion in a different way, their broadcast’s content is not very obvious in terms of ecclesiastical perspective. I made this comment because if we look at the Samanyolu, we can see religious domination more obviously. It is Fetullah Gülen’s channel. It reflects his opinion. It is very ridiculous, but they exploit religion in cartoons. Apart from this, STAR TV is another channel which is problematic. I think, Cem Uzan who is the owner of Star Tv, used his channel for politics. He tried to gain more vote by using media. He did his propaganda with a little bit restriction. Some times RTÜK interfered it, but it did not continue for a long time.