Turkish Game Show in political protest...

[weaklink75]

This is really interesting- there have been protests in Turkey the past week or so over various governmental policies, but the media there has mostly stayed away from it. So a Scrabble-like game show that airs live decided to give their own commentary on things by forming the questions and answers in such a way that everyone knew they were talking about the situation...

 

Here\'s an article on the story with translated questions and answers...

 

http://technosociology.org/?p=1297\'>http://technosociology.org/?p=1297

[WarioBarker]

If I understand the article correctly, it wasn\'t just a few questions sprinkled here and there during the broadcast -- 70 questions were commentary.

No wonder the show got taken off the air (or at least not allowed to go live) -- Turkish media can\'t handle Ali İhsan Varol and the Guess the Word staff having big brass balls. There is not one person working on that show who does not have massive cojones for doing this.

[BrandonFG]

You say this as if ANY country\'s media would openly overlook a game show making pointed political commentary.


Sure it took balls but to say the media \"couldn\'t handle it\" doesn\'t make sense.

[TLEberle]

Sure it took balls but to say the media \"couldn\'t handle it\" doesn\'t make sense.

Of course it doesn\'t make sense; he wasn\'t allowed to air live and his fate is uncertain. That\'s what censorship is; I applaud the show for taking a stand the likes of which hasn\'t been seen since a team on University Challenge protested something-or-other, but they should be aware that this isn\'t the end game, this is the first pawn move.