Journalists are being intimidated and imprisoned, while government-friendly moguls are given lucrative contracts. The free media is on the verge of extinction.

Among journalists, the truth universally acknowledged is that bad news commands more column inches than good. In Turkey the even more depressing truism is that much of the bad news has to do with the news industry itself.

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