Early Edition was a great television series that aired on CBS in 1996-2000. Set in Chicago, it followed the adventures of a man who mysteriously receives each Chicago Sun-Times newspaper the day before it is actually published, and who uses this knowledge to prevent terrible events each day.
A similar thing has happened in Turkey yesterday. TRT, Turkey's state television, reported that retired general Cetin Dogan's house was being searched by the police for the Sledgehammer Coup investigation. Consequently, Dogan phoned Hurriyet newspaper to say that he was at home and nobody searched the house. However, the police arrived in a few hours to arrest him.
After this strikingly accurate early edition, many people criticized TRT. The state channel defended itself, emphasizing that its competitors are "getting jealous of its good journalism."
I'm not sure which one of the following facts is more tragic:
1) The national public broadcaster, which is being financed by the taxes that I'm paying, is now shamelessly embedded to the government and the police (Can we expect them to cover a corruption story anymore?).
2) It is proven the Ergenekon case and its various investigations are directly government initiatives which have nothing to do with judiciary independence.
