Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Erciyes İletişim Dergisi, cilt.5, sa.4, ss.479-492, 2018 (Hakemli Dergi)
This article, mostly through a theoretical background, focuses on general debatesof democracy, media and politics. Giving insights regarding overall perspectivesof democracy, media-democracy and politics relationship, the study tries todemonstrate the view of this interaction and how media should function in ademocratic development. At the end, again to have a clearer point of view, this articletackles construction of the news stories as being matter of structuring agendabuilding,public opinion and political perspectives through the news media.Here particularly media and democracy relationship will be tried to be examinedgiving the importance of the media courses for democracy to function in a properway. While examining the press and politics linkage as being the main actors to setup the daily agenda and a social consensus; the role of the media in shaping thepublic opinion and the ideology both through external or/and internal (institutional)motives have been tried to be discussed to better debate the media problems andexamine their relationship with the politics especially in Turkey.