SPORDA ŞİDDET TEMALI HABERLERİN YAZILI BASINDA YER ALMA SIKLIĞININ İNCELENMESİ

News related to violence in sports in the printed media has critical importance in violence perception of society. That is why, it has become an important issue to make descriptive evaluation of the news about violence in sports in the printed media. The purpose of the present study was to determine how often the news about violence in sports took place in the printed media. This study was done using scanning method that covered total time period of 227 days. During this time period, frequency, number, type (written or photos), length, source, sports branch and organizations of the news related to violence in sports in the national daily newspapers (HABERTURK, HURRIYET) and the daily sports newspapers (FANATIK, FOTOMAC) were determined and the results were evaluated. With that in mind, the news related to violence were first categorized as fallows and then examined; “Europe and Turkey”, “Soccer and other branches”, “League categories”, which club is related to most”, and “Source of Violence. For statistical analysis, the frequency and the percentage of data were calculated and chi-square test was used with the help of SPSS (version 19.0). In addition, consistency analysis was done to determine the relationship among the different level of variables. As a result of this study, it was understood that news related to violence was more focused on soccer and soccer spectators are the main actors of violence in sports. It could be speculated that, media organizations should publish the news, especially violence in soccer, in more responsible manner to cease the tension in violence perception of society. Key Words: Violence, newspaper, sports