Anaakım Türk medyasının başarısızlığı: Türk gazetelerinin internet versiyonlarının bir çerçeveleme karşılaştırması

The objective of this study is to define the notion of mainstream/professional journalism bycomparatively exploring the historical conditions of media systems development to contrast itwith the infrastructure of political culture and professional culture of the past century inTurkey. After this theoretical background, we implemented a comparative framing analysis ofan actual policy debate in the Turkish press to conclude on the changing and not changingconditions that prevail in the politics/media system and culture. In the light of the framinganalysis, we found that the current state of the Turkish media system constitutes still a mostlydysfunctional social interaction platform that is caught between media parallelism andtabloidization and represents a largely underdeveloped professionalism that is still insufficientfor the deve lopment of a civil society. Nonetheless, we found on the other hand that thefundamental values and notion of mainstream media is still represented to make hope for afuture development towards a functioning media system.