How a Turkish Game Show Undermined Censorship of the Gezi Protests
Dashiell Bennett 7,085 Views Jun 6, 2013
If you got all your Turkish news from actual Turkish news outlets, you might not have any idea that thousand of protesters had turned the street of Istanbul and other cities into riotous battlegrounds for the last week. To say nothing of the government's ignorant anti-social media campaign, the country's three main television networks (including CNN Turkey) have almost completely ignored the demonstrations, mentioning them only in passing on the evening news, and going on with their regular programming without interruption. That's because government censors are allowed to restrict news media when "public health and morals, national security, public order, public safety, and the unity of the land are at stake."
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