Our profession has more than one definition. Every journalist, depending on where they stand and depending on their viewpoint, adopts one of these definitions.
No piece of news, no title of a story can be the justification for attacking and vandalizing a newspaper office, with chants of “We will torch you like Madımak.” (Madımak is a hotel in the eastern province of Sivas where 35 mostly Alevi intellectuals were burnt to death by an ultraconservative mob in 1993.)
I had written about it when talking about “peace journalism” was fashionable in pro-government media.
So at the end of the day journalism has not died in Turkey. If it had died as some of our colleagues have been saying lately out of pessimism, there wouldn’t be any need felt to issue the publication ban to the news about the commission’s corruption investigation for the four former ministers.
