Social explosions sometimes unexpectedly produce multiple outcomes. The first consequence of the demonstrations that erupted from Gezi Park was the realization that Istanbul's media conglomerates no longer were capable of independent news reporting and analysis — and that they had become editorially bankrupt.
May 31 marked the milestone that exposed how those grandiose, pompous buildings of the media that calls itself “mainstream” — whose bosses are engrossed in many other money-making ventures — were devoid of courage, professional perception and ethics.