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COMMENT: Could do better? Guardian resorts to tired “whirling dervish” clickbait and stale headline in Turkish “democracy” coverage
The Guardian, a British daily, has devoted the cover of the April 4 issue of its weekly magazine, The Guardian Weekly, to the unrest in Turkey that broke out after the jailing of Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul mayor and main rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on March 19.
The publication sent a reporter into the ‘field’ and obtained a good photograph. Albeit that the image of a whirling dervish wearing a gas mask has quickly grown as old as the discussion on the condition of Turkey’s democracy. It is clickbait.
The Guardian personnel in London did not miss their opportunity to garnish the picture with an even more 'clickable' addition: “Is this the end of Turkish democracy?” the headline asked.
Well, the newspaper has the right to go for it as they have indeed clocked up some extra expenses by going into the ‘field’.
The reader, who in these fraught times might like some insightful and imaginative journalism, has, meanwhile, the right to ask something along the lines of: "With friends like these, who needs enemies?"
Photo: A photo of a whirling dervish wearing a gas mask shot in 2013 during Turkey's "Gezi" protests.
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