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The impartiality of the media and how it reflects the truth has been an important subject of communication studies. Especially in the liberal approach, it has been assumed that the media acts in a balanced manner between the parties of the news and serves the benefit of the society. On the other hand, critical approaches were skeptical of the neutrality of the media. The main problem is how objective and impartial are the news text that the reader reaches. This study focuses on how the presidential election decision of 24 June 2018 is presented in the written media. The aim of the study is to examine how newspapers put forward their ideological attitudes through discourse in the struggling for social hegemony. The role of discourse and ideology in the construction of hegemonic order has been explored. In the study, in which the discourse analysis method was used, the news of 1 newspaper located in the center, together with the newspapers that were ideologically close and distant to the ruling party were analyzed. In this context, the news contents of Sabah, Milliyet, Sözcü and Hürriyet newspapers were analyzed during the presidential election process. At the end of the study; it has been understood that these newspapers did not act objectively in their news. Newspapers preferred to reproduce the discourse produced in the hegemonic struggling according to their ideological stance. In this process, the ownership structure of newspapers, their ideology and their relations with political circles influenced the production of news. It has been observed that newspapers do not act impartially, objectively and in the production and conveying of news and politicize their content.