Media attitude in the March 31 2019 local elections: Content analysis in Hürriyet, Sözcü and Yeni Şafak newspapers

Political parties and candidates benefit from various method and techniques when conducting their election campaigns. They send the messages that they will convey to the voters through communication tools. At this point, the media has an important place in terms of the functions it has. Politicians who are aware of the power of the media engage in various activities in order to keep the communication between them strong and to improve them. The media, on the other hand, should display an impartial and equal attitude in order to continue to contribute to the functioning of democracy. In this study, a research on political parties and actors of political communication was tried to be conducted to measure the attitude of the media in the 31 March 2019 Local Elections. In this context, Sözcü, Hürriyet and Yeni Şafak newspapers, which have various ideologies, were preferred and content analysis was chosen as the method. The obtained data were tabulated and the relationship between the media and politics was tried to be determined.