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Turkish Media on Notice

Turkey’s mainstream broadcast media misses the story.
TV crews film near a damaged broadcaster's satellite news network truck at Taksim Square in central Istanbul June 3, 2013. Turkish protesters clashed with riot police into the early hours of Monday with some setting fire to offices of the ruling AK Party as the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years entered their fourth day. Turkey's streets were calm in the morning after a night of noisy protests and violence in major cities. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (TURKEY  - Tags: POLITICS MEDIA CIVIL UNREST) - RT
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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.

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