Presentations of globalization-related events in the primetime newcasts on the Turkish televisions

Globalization is a world phenomenon which also effects Turkey. Most of the mass media interested in the various aspects of globalization. News are one of the eye catchers on television because of their special formats. This study aims that, how globalization phenomenon is affective in Turkish television news.In this research; besides quantitative and qualitative techniques, content analysis, discourse analysis and narrative analysis were used. The experiment set was Monday, Wednesday and Friday news bulletins of NTV, TRT 2 and Show TV channels, on November 2006, January 2007 and March 2007.Main evening news bulletins on the three television channels had been watched for three months and global news had been determined. 88 news out of 692 were chosen for the study and they were analyzed by content analysis. The researched items were how the global news were reported, the name of Turkey in the global news, the use of technology and source materials, the general characteristics of news, foreground objects (as actors), the frequency of the names in the news, recurrence and timing of certain news. 88 news titles were classified in accordance to the channels and months, and 13 items were analyzed by critical discourse analysis. It is analyzed that how the TV channels produced discoursed ideology on the news. 7 news out of 13 had been chosen for the narrative analysis. The scale of shots, the camera angles and moves, and the news texts which were presented by the speakers during news bulletins were the source of data.The findings were analyzed as economical, political, military, socio-cultural, environmental, technological and communicative sides of globalization. Differences in broadcasting the global news on the TV channels were examined. Resulting from the quantitative outcomes of content analysis, the interrelations between the critical discourse analysis and narrative analysis methods had been examined. According to content analysis data, the global news? frequency was low and the news were mostly local and regional news. It is ascertained that, globalization news were mostly political in the three television channels. About half of the news, it was Turkey related, or the name of ?Türkiye? was used. Also globalization news were 11 percent of the news bulletins. Furthermore, regarding the critical discourse data, the background and context information was insufficient, and in some cases dominant ideology was reproduced in the news. In narrative analysis, it was also observed that camera shooting angles, camera scales and camera moves were casual. Cinematographic techniques were not in use.Key words: Globalization, news, television news/television journalism, global news, content/discourse/narrative analysis.