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May 1945in optics of journal Mlada fronta in time-spiral of 65 years
Stoszková, Šárka ; Halada, Jan (advisor) ; Sekera, Martin (referee)
The thesis "Looking through the lens of the Czech daily newspaper Mlada fronta for 65 years" examines the topic of the liberation of Czechoslovakia in May, 1945. The qualitative content analysis of selected texts available from the newspaper is used to explore the interpretation of the event in Mlada fronta. The thesis has concentrated on the development of attitudes, beliefs, ways of communications and journalistic transformation of media content concerning the liberation event over time. The main objective has been to answer the question as to whether the media portrayal of the event has remained constant or altered over the stated time period and which factors influenced the portrayal. In the conclusion of this thesis we can confirm that the monitored event has been described differently in different time periods respectively, in connection with political progress and the value of democracy in the country. The more totalitarian the regime, the more the newspaper has described freedom through preferred ideology, biased themes, dogmatic posture and offered interpretations that suited the ruling party. This indicates a form of totalitarian hegemony. During periods of greater totalitarianism, the newspaper tends to describe the theme of the freedom completely within that communist ideology. However,...
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Establishment of the United Nations Organization and its Reflection in the Period Newspapers
Jelínková, Vladislava ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Cebe, Jan (referee)
The paper will concern the formation of the United Nations Organization in 1945 and its reflection in the period newspapers. Firstly it will provide facts about the preceding organizations of UNO, it will describe the proces of drafting the new organization and its establishing conference in San Francisko 25. 4. - 26. 6. 1945. It will discuss the position of the Czechoslovak Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Masaryk at the conference, because he acted as a very pro-Western politician before and during World War II, but at the conference he stood for the interestes of the Soviet Union (i.e. in the question of recognizing the Polish government). Then the paper will also outline the domestic political situation that was influencing Masaryk's performance at the conference. The first part includes also the preamble of the UN Charter. The second part of the paper will introduce the articles in the Czechoslovak press that were reporting about the UN creation. I chose the following newspapers: Lidová demokracie, Mladá fronta, Právo lidu, Rudé právo and Svobodné slovo, because those daily newspapers were written in Czech, they were published in the period of June-December 1945 and they were published by political parties that were represented in the National Front (only the journal Mladá fronta was published...
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Nixon-BreznevSummits in 1973 and 1974 in Czechoslovakian Press
Kvapilík, Ondřej ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Sekera, Martin (referee)
The diploma thesis named "Nixon-Brezhnev Summits in 1973 and 1974 in Czechoslovakian Press" deals with the presentation of summits between Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon in contemporary Czechoslovakian dailies. It analyzes texts published by the media concerning the meetings in 1973 and 1974 in Washington and Moscow in the set period of more than one month around the meetings. Not only does the thesis research the degree of bias of the media content due to the ideological inclination towards the Soviet Union. It also analyzes the way in which the media in Czechoslovakia dealt with the presentation of both the enemy superpowers as partners. The theory part provides in introduction of the topic and basic historical context of the events. Furthermore it characterizes the respective meetings and the analyzed dailies. The practical part covers detailed qualitative content analysis of the selected representatives of the contemporary Czechoslovakian press, namely Rudé právo, Svobodné slovo, Mladá fronta and Lidová demokracie. Then the thesis compares the presentation of the respective summits and attempts to find the causes of the differences and trends in the in the presentation. As an addition the thesis also provides a comparison with similar meetings between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev,...
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Shift of Czech News Service Genre Composition in Years 1989-1995 and Formation of New Journalist Standards in Press due to the New Technologies in Mladá fronta Dnes.
Svobodová, Tereza ; Osvaldová, Barbora (advisor) ; Trunečková, Ludmila (referee)
Technologies together with so-called new media are one of the most important matters of contemporary media studies and mass communication theory. Many experts focus on their impact and try to find out and describe their effects on audience, media content, work of journalists or professional methods etc. Considering new technologies and regarding formation of absolutely new on-line medium we can ask how journalistic genres cope with fast evolution in the field of media. As the time goes, genres can change, which may be caused by many factors. New technologies, innovations and especially new medium can take part in such process. This thesis focuses on shift of Czech news service genre composition and formation of new journalist standards in press due to the new technologies introduced into media production in years 1989-1995. It also concerns with historical context and social changes after 1989. After all, these changes together with media transformation into liberal democratic model had an essential impact on news making as well as innovations and modernization of newsrooms. Genre metamorphosis is shown on the example of Mladá fronta Dnes.
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PICTURE OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE USA IN THE CZECH PRINTED MEDIA IN 1956
Krobová, Tereza ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Cebe, Jan (referee)
This bachelor's thesis is trying to explain the way of media reporting about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America. It is focused on two important boundary stones: the begining of the movement - bus Boycott in Montgomery in 1956 and its top - the March on Washington in 1963. Martin Luther King, leader of this movement, made there a "I have a dream" speech, which is an object of this Thesis too. These thesis are noticing the connection between the movemet and communism and ask the main question: has this fact influenced media reporting? Three representative newspapers was chosen for this purpose - Rudé právo, Mladá fronta and Lidová demokracie. This study is trying to describe the relation of the United States and Czechoslovakia and find some signs of viewiness or the publicity campain of the czechoslovak press. One full year is analyzed in both cases.
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Potsdam Conference and its media image in Czech Period Newspapers
Červenková, Kateřina ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Suk, Pavel (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Potsdam conference and its media image in Czech period newspapers" focuses on the way how chosen newspapers, specifically Rudé právo (the official newspaper of Communist Party), Mladá fronta (newspaper of Czechoslovak Union of Youth), Lidová demokracie (official newspaper of Czechoslovak people's party), Svobodné noviny (newspaper of Association of cultural organizations) and Právo lidu (the official newspaper of Czechoslovak social democratic party) informed about the topic of Potsdam conference during the period from june till september 1945. The conference significantly affected post- war reconstruction of the world. The paper focuses mainly on the way how newspapers dealed with the limited information about the meeting and the discussed topics. The paper is also interested in circumstances of the Potsdam conference and its impact on Czechoslovakia.
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Flight of First Czechoslovak Spaceman Vladimír Remek and its Reflection in Czech Period Newspapers
Švrkala, Marek ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Cihlářová, Gabriela (referee)
The objective of these bachelor thesis is to describe how the three Czechoslovak contemporary periodicals reported about the flight of first Czechoslovak spaceman Vladimir Remek and if the media did use this event for propaganda of communism regime. Thesis focus on posts about cosmonautics and especially Remek's flight in period which covers one week before start of spaceship Sojuz 28 in March 1978, it also covers course of the flight and return of the ship to the Earth. Analysis continues to triumphal return to Czechoslovakia and First of May celebrations, which delegation of cosmonauts attended. Bachelor thesis find out which image the common Czechoslovak citizen has made with chosen contemporary Czechoslovak press and how much was this image different from objective description which I found in books and in special articles. I suppose that mentioned periodicals have to use cosmonaut's flight for propagandist campaign of communist ideology and cooperation between Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. I tried to discover which instrument media use to accomplish subjective description of events.
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The media image of Prague underground in the contemporary press 1974-1990
Trojanová, Monika ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
Bachelor thesis "The media image of Prague underground in the contemporary press during the period 1974-1990" deals with presenting underground railway by daily press during the normalization and shortly after the velvet revolution in 1989. The author have chosen Lidová demokracie, Mladá fronta, Rudé právo a Večerní Praha as the sources. The thesis is focused on years 1974, 1978 and 1985 - during these years the underground line C, A and B were opened - and 1990, when the line A was prolonged. The thesis also describes the history of the underground in Czechoslovakia and interprets the contemporary and political context.
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The society and language transformation in a pair of political period
NESTÁVALOVÁ, Petra
The thesis is aimed to the journalistic texts of the newspapers Rudé právo / Právo, Lidové noviny and Mladá fronta / Mladá fronta Dnes in two political periods (1945 ? 1989; 1989 ? 2011). The attention is focused to the structure of the newspapers, their scheme, categories and the way how the informations have been presented. The form newspapers changes are monitored systematically over the decades, studying their language and events are comparing with evaluation of the current historiography. The theoretical chapter simply contains the journalistic style ? its history, function, the middle genres devision in the separate parts. The practical part of this thesis describes the newspaper structure, their columns and gives examples of messages. In other part are illustrations of journalistic texts and newspapers headlines. The next chapter of this thesis is given to language part of diaries. The verbal means are briefly summarized in theoretical level. The examples are describes by individual journals. The thesis aim definites linguistic, social and political changes which are presented by journalism totalitarian system and compared to the current democratic form.
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