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Media coverage of Korean war by the journal Rudé právo
Chrenčík, Roman ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Končelík, Jakub (referee)
This Diploma thesis deals with the media coverage of the Korean war in the Rudé právo daily, in that period the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Its main goal is to ascertain the rate of influence of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, of rigorous censorship of the regime and Soviet Union dictatorship upon informing about events of the Korean war, which was the first conflict ever where the United Nations army, consisting of several states, was fighting together. For this purpose, by studying secondary resources I am first of all describing conditions leading to the war and determining the most important events of the war, including for instance landing of the United Nations forces in Incheon, China involvement or distinct phases of armistice negotiations. The crucial part of this thesis is the portrayal of these events in the newspaper, including monitoring of tens of issues between late May 1950 and early October 1950. Regarding the facts ascertained by that time I am switching to five days cycles of newspaper monitoring, which has by the end proven to be absolutely sufficient for creating a comprehensive image.
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Media coverage of Korean war by the journal Rudé právo
Chrenčík, Roman ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Končelík, Jakub (referee)
This Diploma thesis deals with the media coverage of the Korean war in the Rudé právo daily, in that period the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Its main goal is to ascertain the rate of influence of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, of rigorous censorship of the regime and Soviet Union dictatorship upon informing about events of the Korean war, which was the first conflict ever where the United Nations army, consisting of several states, was fighting together. For this purpose, by studying secondary resources I am first of all describing conditions leading to the war and determining the most important events of the war, including for instance landing of the United Nations forces in Incheon, China involvement or distinct phases of armistice negotiations. The crucial part of this thesis is the portrayal of these events in the newspaper, including monitoring of tens of issues between late May 1950 and early October 1950. Regarding the facts ascertained by that time I am switching to five days cycles of newspaper monitoring, which has by the end proven to be absolutely sufficient for creating a comprehensive image.
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Media Imagine of Transformation of Elite after 1989: Moral Havel and Technocrat Klaus
Loudová, Barbora ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
Czechoslovak society underwent a fundamental change in 1989, in which a certain portion of society, previously restricted from official intervention in politics, took crucial part. Even though this part of society (the dissent) was before 1989 restricted from participation in politics, it had been doing so. However, in illegal ways at that time, for which had been the involved often persecuted. This group of dissidents later contributed to the revolutionary changes, which is the source of certain mythology that began to appear in connection with them. During 1990s their influence decreased, and the dissent's political elite was gradually replaced by a new right- wing elite, promising economic reform and rapid transformation. The idealistic conception of politics was replaced by the pragmatic one and completely different and ambitious personalities came to the foreground. The new characters did not come from the background of fight against totalitarianism, yet they quickly gained political skills. This transformation of elites in Czech society can be expressed via comparison of Václav Havel and Václav Klaus, as both of them were among the main initiators of domestic politics. Therefore, this diploma thesis is focused on them and their media portrayal. The media reflect everyday reality and pose as...
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Media Image of Life in the Suburb of Prague in the 70s and 80s in Contemporary Czechoslovakian Media
Čtvrtlíková, Kristýna ; Knapík, Jiří (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
This master's thesis concerns the construction and the life in the Ďáblice housing estate in Prague during the seventies and the eighties of the twentiethcentury and presents its reflection in contemporary Czechoslovakian media, namely in Rudé právo and Lidová demokracie dailies, Mladý svět magazine and relevant programs of Czechoslovakian Television. The Ďáblice housing estate was built between 1968 and 1983. To this day, it is considered to be unique for its urban composition in the Czechoslovakian context. The aim of the thesis was to present the media image of this housing estate in the normalization era between the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the Velvet Revolution in 1989. First, the theoretical part of the thesis describes the historical context and significant political and social events and phenomena. It also brings characterization of the contemporary media landscape with more detailed description of the researched media sources. It also focuses on Czechoslovakianhousingpolicy after the Second WorldWar with greater emphasis onmassive panel housing development. Separate chapter introduces the Ďáblice housing estate itself. The practical part of the thesis describes the methodology including research questions. This part subsequently presents the analysis of the articles and...
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Preparation and enactment of the 1960 Constitution from the point of view of the Czechoslovak press
Volčková, Dominika ; Groman, Martin (advisor) ; Cebe, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with one of the most important constitutional transformations in the Czechoslovak and Czech history from the point of view of the then press. The primary aim of the new constitution enacted in July 1960 was to confirm the following fact: socialism had won in Czechoslovakia. Embodying among others the pivotal position of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, this triumphal document had to be presented to the society in a certain form. The key role played the Czechoslovak daily press. It was documenting the entire procedure from drafting the proposal of constitution in April 1960 to its definitive enactment by the National Assembly in July. However, what kind of information was the press passing to readers? And which methods were used? At the beginning, we focus in the theoretical part on the historical and legal context preceding the new constitution. We concentrate on the text itself and its specificities from the 1948 Constitution. Subsequently we characterize the explored media environment. Finally we analyze with qualitative and comparative methods four leading daily newspapers: Rudé právo, Práce, Svobodné slovo and Mladá fronta. What media image of the 1960 Constitution did they create and in which they mutually resemble or differ from each other?
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Czech and Slovak media representation of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia
Kvítková, Alena ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Lizcová, Zuzana (referee)
The master thesis Czech and Slovak media representation of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia is concerned with the way in which media portrayed the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Through the analysis of articles on the topic in question it examines the media image created by each newspaper respectively, by Czech and Slovak newspapers as two units and the overall image based on all of the collected data. Three Czech (Mladá fronta DNES, Rudé právo and Blesk) and three Slovak (Smena, Pravda and Nový Čas) newspapers served as the source for the analysis. Articles from two periods were collected - from the time the act on the dissolution of Czechoslovakia was passed and from the time the actual dissolution took place. The aim is to establish the overall media image of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, but also to compare and contrast the image created by Czech and Slovak newspapers and to study their differences concerning the overall positive, negative or neutral image as well as the implemented media frames. In addition, the thesis also focuses on the different portrayal of the dissolution in right-wing and left-wing newspapers and broadsheet and tabloid press. The final confrontation of the results with public opinion surveys is also important as it proves the connection between the media agenda and...
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The image of U.S. in Rudé právo during the Vietnam War
Mikeš, Marek ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
In my thesis I analyse how the United States was depicted in Rudé právo during selected stretches of the Vietnam War. I focus on 1966 (the US already at war), 1968 (the Tet offensive) and 1969 (Nixon as president, the death of Ho Chi Minh) and I explore what image a Czechoslovak reader might have made of the US based on those periods. Next, I observe the differences between the objective portrayal of these historical events and their media coverage in Rudé právo. In my work I assume that Rudé právo did not inform about the Vietnam War objectively, but was instead subject to Communist propaganda. At the same time, I am also interested in the means by which Rudé právo obtained a subjective description of these events.
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The change of content of newspapers Rudé právo in late 1989 in domestic policy
Zpěváčková, Barbora ; Suk, Pavel (advisor) ; Cebe, Jan (referee)
From 1948 to 1989, the newspaper Rudé právo was the central press authority of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Its content that was presented to the public, was ideologically focused in accordance with the current propaganda line of the Communist Party. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, the situation began to change and, above all, domestic political content began to go through considerable change. This thesis analyzes the domestic political articles that were published in the Rudé právo during 1989 - eleven months before the Velvet Revolution and the period after the Velvet Revolution until the end of 1989. This work captures what topics the texts dealt with, which topics were preferred and which were neglected. The thesis also captures and describes how and when exactly the content of the paper began to change, how the attitudes of editors and the tone of the texts has being changed, which new topics began to appear in the press and how the language and rhetoric of the newspaper have changed.
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Media coverage of the Summer Olympic Games 1948, 1952 and 1956 in the Czechoslovakian press
Kadeřábek, Jan ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Macková, Veronika (referee)
The diploma thesis analyses the media coverage of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London and 1952 in Helsinki in selected Czechoslovakian media. The qualitative content analysis compares the transformation of Olympic coverage in London with Helsinki, especially from an ideological point of view. The thesis begins with a description of the post-war development of Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1952, continues with media development in the same period and through the definition of theoretical concepts - communism, capitalism, ideology, ideological square and methodology - reaches the most extensive part dealing with the British and Finnish Games from the view of the Czechoslovakian press. This part of the thesis is further divided into subchapters according to the topics that were most covered by the Czechoslovakian media at the Games. This is followed by a comparison between the London and Helsinki Games, which, based on examples, describes the ideological transformation of coverage and media content of the Czechoslovakian media between 1948 and 1952.
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