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The media undertakes the task of enabling individuals in society to receive information. However, the media fulfills its function of conveying information within a capitalist economic and political structure. Like all other industries operating in capitalist societies constrained by a market economy and a political authority, the media, too, is driven by profitable motives and often maintains close relations with the government to sustain this. For this reason, the production of information by the media is subject to the control of the government; thus, media ownership gains importance within the capitalist system. This situation has an impact on the production of information by media owners as well as on the level of information received by individuals in society. The comprehensibility of this situation is based on the economic-political. With the development of technology, social media channels have emerged as an alternative to traditional media, and social media. In this study, the news texts of the case in which Dilan Polat and her husband Engin Polat, who have been on the agenda for a while in the Turkish media, were analyzed. The news production process of the case in which Dilan-Engin Polat judged and arrested were comparatively analyzed in the context of the economic-political approach in traditional and social media. In the study, the web portal Milliyet owned by Demirören Holding, which is known to be close to the government, was preferred as the traditional media. As for social media, it was analyzed how the news texts on the issue were handled in the account named @Haber on the X, which is considered to be a relatively freer space since the government's intervention does not go beyond imposing access bans. Within the scope of the study, the news texts on the subject were classified according to the media channels from which they were obtained and analyzed comparatively with the descriptive method in the context of the economic-political approach. In line with the findings obtained, it has been determined that how news texts on the subject are handled differs in the context of the economic-political approach in line with media ownership and power relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]