Özet:

It is accepted that the media plays an important role in raising awareness about the risks arising from natural disasters, developing social awareness and adopting ideal attitudes to minimize risk-related damage. For this reason, the media coverage of the earthquake, which poses a high and permanent risk for Turkey, has a special importance. In this study, this very special importance of the earthquake risk was focused and the analysis of TRT Haber, A Haber, CNN Türk, Habertürk and NTV television and radio channels were accepted as sampling areas. The news and similar program contents of these channels regarding the September 26, 2019 Istanbul and October 30, 2020 Izmir earthquakes were analysed with the Content Analysis technique, one of the qualitative research methods, and the framing paradigm, which is a functional tool for observing the effects desired to be created on the audience, that means a selective control process, and a theoretical basis was created for the study by linking it with risk communication. As a result of the analyses, a contradictory view emerged with the role and position of the traditional media in risk communication. In the analyses made according to the categories, it has been determined that the mainstream radio and television channels do not carry out any work in the context of risk communication and do not put the risks related to disasters on their agenda before disasters occur. According to the findings, radio and television channels, as traditional communication tools, do not give due importance to risk communication, do not fulfil their "illumination and informing" functions in the context of "risk and disaster", and do not exhibit a proactive attitude that requires the necessary warnings to be circulated before disasters occur. In addition, instead of preparing the public against risks as a requirement of the function of informing the public, with a proactive approach, they display a publishing understanding and practice based on intense dramatization and overly storification about what happened after each disaster.

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