Ideology in television reporting: the case of TRT 1, Channel 7, Channel D

Ideology is a concept that guides every aspect of life. Ideology is seen as the dominant factor that enables the society to represent itself at the macro level and it also seen as very important factor for representation of institution, organization, company, group, class or individual at the micro level as identity in the social structure. It can not be said that media organizations are abstracted from ideological approaches when they are thought to be part of the social structure too. On the contrary, the press organizations that are involved in various relations form ideology politics under the publication policy. In the comparison of TRT1 with Kanal D and Kanal 7 as private channels among this study; Although the presentation styles and news selections were differing. Both the TRT1 and Kanal D and Kanal 7's main news bulletins were analyzed and their ideological attitudes were tried to be determined. For this purpose, the news bulletins were monitored for each of the three channels for two months and data were collected by applying content analysis. As a result of the study, it was found that in all three channels, they produced discourse and ideology using different kind of representations according to their audience size. Key Words: Television Journalism, Discourse, Ideology, Representation, Hegemony