FEELING THE PAIN YET KEEPING HOPING: EMOTION AND DISCOURSE IN CRISIS JOURNALISM

Authors : Zuhal Demir

Pages : 391-411

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Publication Date : 2023-09-25

Article Type : Research

Abstract :The earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş, which occurred on February 6, 2023, caused serious losses of lives and property in Turkey. This disaster, in which more than 38 thousand aftershocks were experienced, deeply affected people\'s moods and caused them to feel the pain for their losses. As in all times of crisis, communication has been among the primary needs of the society after this natural disaster, and the media has played a significant role in this regard. From this point of view, this research, which aims to reveal how emotion is included in the scope of newspaper news through discourse, makes use of Teun Adrian Van Dijk\'s critical discourse analysis. In this context, the first pages of 6 national newspapers with the highest circulation published in Turkey between 7th of February and 13th of February in 2023 were analyzed. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that emotions were conveyed in the news both through the experiences of the people in the earthquake region and from the perspectives of the journalists. In the study, it was concluded that it is not possible to say that crisis reporting is completely apolitical. The effects of the ideological view of the media organ are felt in the victim/criminal opposition established in the newspapers. In addition, it is seen that the ideological views of the newspapers / their relations with the government also affect the positive or negative emotions in the news. When the findings are evaluated within the framework of objectivity, which is one of the normative principles of journalism, it has been shown that newspapers that are not purified from politics and that highlight political actors violate the principle of objectivity. On the other hand, the news that focuses only on human stories and conveys the pain that occurs as a result of a dramatic event with all its reality, is not considered to be against objectivity, and in this context, the research supports previous research which has stated that emotions are not against objectivity in journalism.
Keywords : Haber, duygu, söylem, kriz haberciliği, nesnellik