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The End of Faith in Burning Lights in England: The Transformation of Britain's Position on the Czech Mental Map in 1938
Kudrnová, Johana ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
Western orientation of the interwar Czechoslovak foreign policy was based on a longterm effort to extricate the territory from a German sphere of influence and on the circumstances of its formation in 1918. A generally accepted narration about the friendship of France and Britain resulted in a deep mental shock after the messages about the signing of the Munich Agreement reached Czechoslovakia on the 30th of September 1938. Consequently, Czechoslovakia reoriented itself towards East. The aim of this diploma thesis is to capture this sudden turn through an analysis of the British image in selected Czech journals. Britain is in this regard examined as one of two most important interwar allies of Czechoslovakia. Discoursive analysis is applied to articles appearing in three periodicals, which represent three interwar ideological groups. Namely, the diploma thesis works with Lidove noviny, which were constructing an image influenced by the foreign policy orientation of the Castle, Venkov, which acted as a press agency of the most powerful political party, and Rude pravo, whose editorial line was comparatively noncomformist and thus represents a desirable alternative.
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Leaving of Czechoslovak democracy giants; comparison of media images of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk and Václav Havel death and funeral in Czech Press
Pavelková, Kateřina ; Cebe, Jan (advisor) ; Sekera, Martin (referee)
Diploma thesis "Leaving of Czechoslovak democracy giants; comparison of media images of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk's and Vaclav Havel's death and funeral in Czech Press" aims to compare the media images of the presidents' death and funeral in broadsheet and tabloid newspapers of that time. In this matter, media analyzed the lives of these great personalities, their work, political views, their acceptance and renown abroad, their merits and their critical reception as well. The study itself is divided into two main parts. The first one being the theoretical part informs about the political and social context of the time in which Tomas Garrigue Masaryk and Vaclav Havel lived and worked and it discusses their personalities in more details. Furthermore, the methodology used in the thesis is included in this section as well, representing and explaining the method of the media research. In the second practical part, the thesis provides the characteristics of the chosen broadsheet and tabloid newspapers - Lidove noviny, Poledni list and Blesk. By using qualitative analysis the thesis seeks to determine how media presented the presidents at that time. On one hand it attempts to illustrate the parallels that linked these two personalities, on the other hand it endeavours to describe how their images differed....
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Journalism Karel Capek and his "quiet voice" at the time of threats to democracy (1935-1938)
Nováková, Michaela ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
In my bachelor thesis on "Karel Čapek and his ‚quiet voice' at the time of danger for democracy" I will analyze his journalistic texts published between 1935-1938 in the journal Lidové Noviny, České slovo and the magazine Přítomnost. I'll be watching Čapek's development in specific years while noticing how his journalistic work was transforming with the approaching year 1938. Particularly, I will watch Čapek's activities related to the fight to save democracy in Czechoslovakia during the gradual expansionof fascism. To better understand the significance of the texts I give the socio-historical background as well. The aim of the work is mainly to find out how the Čapek's literary works reflected the historical events of that time and if Čapek's "silentvoice" was sufficient warning, concise and striking. This work does not deal comprehensively Čapek'swork, it only selects the most significant texts of a certain period.
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Czech reflection of Tymoshenko case and its media representation
Musilová, Gabriela ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Zilynskyj, Bohdan (referee)
The main theme of this bachelor thesis is the media representation of the case of politician Yulia Tymoshenko in three selected printed daily newspapers - Czech papers Lidové noviny and Haló noviny and British paper The Guardian in the period 2011- 2013. The Czech papers were chosen intentionally on the basis of its political orientation. Left-wing oriented Haló noviny where was assumed that would sympathize with Russia and Lidové noviny as pro-western representative. Where was expected that will take Tymoshenko side. Through a quantitative content analysis of a total of 204 news and opinion papers, I evaluate what topics this media put to the forefront of interest and how objectively it is presented to readers. A database of individual contributions with the coding of the monitored characteristics related to the topics, the author's expression, the objectivity and the contribution sources is created for the purposes of the thesis. The evaluation and interpretation of the results takes place both descriptively within each journal and comparatively. Evaluation and determination of conclusions as well as coding of indicators are carried out following a thorough study of the historical events in Ukraine related to the case of Yulia Tymoshenko. The research part of the thesis is based on the concept of...
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Jiřina Hauková - publicist
Tregerová, Dana ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the journalistic activities of the Czech poet Jirina Haukova in Obzor journal and Lidove newspaper (including magazine Eve) over the period from 1935 to 1942. The text consists of two parts, each of which focuses primarily on the content aspect of the articles. The first part of the work refers to the formal attributes of Haukova's articles, especially regarding the reviews and exceptionally some other journalistic texts. Besides reviews, the focus is exclusively on literary genres. In the second part of the thesis I describe the anchoring of opinion in matters of Dahlias Haukova's views of the matters of modern women behavior. This part also concerns with other specific features that characterize the journalistic activity of Hauková in Lidove newspaper.
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Purpose of epicentrum agency and marketpace for a new agency after its closure
Kohout, Jan ; Trunečková, Ludmila (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This thesis recapitulates activities of Epicentrum agency which was reporting from the crisis places in the world and due to its termination of activities it attempts to define the meaning of Epicentrum. There is no doubt that Epicentrum was unique, but the important thing is to understand the causes and circumstances of its establishment and actions and to describe the way Epicentrum worked, including the both positive and negative aspects. Since the days of Epicentrum the world of media has changed fundametally (although it has not been that long). There is the phenomenon of media internetisation which the traditional media do not know how to deal with. Consequences of digitization have meant significant changes in journalists' work and the theme of this thesis is how could similar agency operate in these days. Today the proccess of producing the reports from the field is faster and cheaper which is advantage, on the other hand it is much easier to gather the large amount information for free these days and it is hard to convince media to buy it from such an agency. Therefore the integral part of this work is also a reflection on the value of on-the-spot reporting and its subsequent application possibilities on the market.
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The transformation of sports sections of Czech daily newspapers between 2001 and 2015
Trunečka, Ondřej ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Sekot, Aleš (referee) ; Waschková Císařová, Lenka (referee)
The transformation of sports sections of Czech daily newspapers between 2001 and 2015 The dissertation deals with the transformation of sports sectionsin the daily newspapers, in their traditional paper form, between 2001 and 2015. In this period, Hospodářské noviny, Lidové noviny, Mladá fronta Dnes and Právo were faced with the almost permanent decrease of the circulation, the financial crisis in 2008 made their situation even more difficult. At the same time, sports journalism have changed due to the expansion of the TV stations and mainly of the Internet; the news became more available. The newspapers considered some innovation and they decided to change the number of pages devoted to sport or to replace the match and race reports by the reactions of players or more often by stories with larger context.
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Tabloidization of Czech dailies before and after the death of Karel Svoboda
Cífka, Petr ; Trampota, Tomáš (advisor) ; Vojtěchovská, Martina (referee)
The diploma thesis "Tabloidization of Czech dailies before and after the death of Karel Svoboda" focuses on suicide of popular Czech songwriter and composer and analyzes the way in which Czech dailies covered this event - including tabloids and also quality papers. This diploma thesis is a case study, with brief theoretical introduction about tabloidization and framing and detailed analysis of framing in three important Czech dailies, which contributes to the description of some of the aspects of tabloidization of Czech newspapers.
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Gastronomy as a part of life style in the Czech national print media in the period between the wars in Czechoslovak Republic
Zábrodská, Kristina ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Vošahlíková, Pavla (referee) ; Burešová, Jana (referee)
The doctoral thesis Gastronomy as a part of life style in the Czech national print media in the period between the wars in Czechoslovak Republic presents the results of eight years long research of food journalism in the Czech press between 1918 and 1938. This period called First Republic is often seen, due the positive sentiment, as a modern, democratic and prosperous state. The reality is a different. This text presents just a little part of picture of life style during First Republic which is gastronomy. That mirrors the economic and social level of the society. This text reflects critically the historical facts. The assumption, that print media pay regularly attention to the gastronomy as an integral part of life is important idea of this research. The content analysis proofs, that food journalism had its own section in the analyzed daily print, although media didn't used this kind of terminology. Five national newspapers (Lidové noviny, Národní politika, České slovo, Právo lidu and Venkov) were issued in the period 1918-1938 and newspapers Rudé právo established 1920 are included in the analysis. The selection of these (media) reflects the whole social-political spectrum of the audience. It could be assumed, that the selected newspapers represent the whole plurality of opinions. The analysis...
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