Doğan Media Group, or DMG, Vice President Soner Gedik paid a visit to Minister of Finance Kemal Unakıtan in his office in Ankara on January 28. The purpose of his visit was to state his objections to a portion of the report filed by a revenue officer from the Ministry of Finance on DMG accounts for the year 2002.
Journalism, particularly when it turns on the complex marriage of intellectual and mechanical tasks involved in the production of a newspaper, is really just an unending series of exercises in judgment. Which quote among many should a reporter use first? Which photograph should a page designer pull from the hundreds available to help tell the same story? One "deck," as we call the lines in headlines, or two or three for the main story? These are just a few of the scores of judgments that define the day.
ISTANBUL - As the United States faces severe financial difficulties with the highest unemployment level of the last 14 years, President-elect Barack Obama calls for the urgent implementation of rescue plan for the middle class which will create jobs and provide relief to families in his first weekly radio address.