Media outlets’ battle for clarity amidst the chaos of US election
US election pushes every institution to its limit, including the media. Plus, Turkish TV dramas and ‘neo-Ottoman cool’.
With a victory for Biden imminent, media outlets that have thrived on the Trump show must look for a new business model.
Contributors:
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We discuss India and the arrest of Arnab Goswami, one of the country’s loudest pro-government voices on television. Producer Nicholas Muirhead has been tracking the response of the right-wing media.
Ertugrul: Turkish TV’s Ottoman phenomenon goes global
The Listening Post‘s Meenakshi Ravi reports on how history, politics and entertainment collide in Turkey’s Ottoman TV epics.
Contributors:
Burak Ozcetin – associate professor, Istanbul Bilgi University
Senem Cevik – lecturer in International Studies, UC Irvine
Omar Al-Ghazzi – assistant professor, LSE; co-author, Neo-Ottoman Cool: Turkish Popular Culture in the Arab Public Sphere
Published On 7 Nov 2020