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THE END OF THE JOURNALISM PROFESSION: ROBOT JOURNALISM and PROPAGANDA OFFICE
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Throughout history, journalism, like other professions, has evolved with technology. As Karl Marx put it, capitalism cannot exist without continuously reproducing the means of production. There have been significant blows dealt to the journalism profession and press workers throughout the world and Turkey after the 19th century, the second industrial revolution, electrification, and the postfordist economy's spread of flexible production after the 1970s, and in parallel with this, the neo-liberal policies that have spread worldwide since 1980. Another blow to the labour market is artificial intelligence. The rollback of laws protecting press workers, especially in the last two decades with AKP policies, and the policies carried out as if officially declaring war on press workers have caused journalism to become a discredited profession or to turn into civil servants under the government's propaganda ministry. This study will discuss the evolution of the journalism profession in Turkey, the impact of artificial intelligence on this profession and what journalism will become in the future from the perspective of press workers. Press workers and the democratic forces of society, who cannot stand in front of capitalism, which must be limited in order to live humanely, becoming as brutal in recent years as it was in its early years, will discuss how they can form a force against this new stage of the profession, robot journalism. It will be shown that if these press workers fail to take a position against media companies and capitalists, the journalism profession and journalists will become propaganda agents of the state, just like the AKP's pool of media today. In journalism, where artificial intelligence will come into play, one cannot even talk about pens becoming for sale. Keywords: Artificial intelligence, robot journalism, propaganda, capitalism, state, exploitation