THE LEVEL OF TRUST IN GENERAL NEWSPAPERS AND LOCAL NEWSPAPERS: SAMPLE OF KONYA
YAYGIN VE YEREL GAZETELERE GÜVEN DÜZEYİ: KONYA ÖRNEĞİ

Author : Mevlüt Can KOÇAK -- Olgun KÜÇÜK - Özden TOPRAK
Number of pages : 395-406

Abstract

Since mass media have emerged and became widespread, they have occupied an important place in people's lives. People learn a lot of information about the world that they live in and the news from the newspapers. General and lo-cal newspapers should be objective in their news;but various ideological, commercial and political pressures overshadow this neutrality. This situation leads to a decrease in the trust of individuals in newspapers. In recent years, the trust in the media in our country and in the world has been discussing.This study was carried out in order to reveal the trust level of the participants in newspapers in the sample of Konya. The level of trust in general and local newspapers was examined in the study. Field research method was used in the study and data were collected from 870 participants by survey technique. Re-search results; The results showed that the participants had moderate trust in local and general newspapers.Women's trust levels in general and local newspapers were higher than men.

Keywords

News, Newspapers, Reliability, Local Newspaper

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