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Media Coverage of the Major Candidates in the 2024 US Republican Primary Election
Jakšič, Marek ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
The Media Portrayal of the Main Candidates in the 2024 US Republican Primary Election is a thesis that focuses on a detailed analysis of articles reporting on the candidates for the Republican nomination for the November US presidential election. Articles discussing the Republican Party candidates are examined during the analysis period from November 14, 2023, to January 14, 2024. Due to their high number, only the top five favourites in the primaries were included in the analysis. These candidates are Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Chris Christie. Three media outlets, or rather their news sites, were included in the analysis. The first is CNN.com, which represents the left-leaning media. The second chosen server is WSJ.com, which by contrast represents the center-oriented media, while the right-oriented media is represented by FOXNews.com. Although only three media outlets were deliberately included in the analysis, each of them occupies a different place on the right-wing political scale. Therefore, it can be assumed that the coverage of each candidate will differ at least slightly. The last condition that the articles had to meet in order to be included in the research was that the texts had to be related to the chosen topics. These nine topics were inflation,...
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The Beatles in the context of socialist Czechoslovakia in the radio documentary
Jakšič, Marek ; Lovaš, Karol (advisor) ; Gulda, Jana (referee)
The bachelor's thesis The Beatles in the Context of Socialist Czechoslovakia in the Radio Documentary is divided into two parts - practical and theoretical. The main practical part is focused on the impact of The Beatles on Czechoslovakian politics and culture. In the radio documentary, the author is trying to describe the atmosphere of the sixties. Therefore, the listeners can hear original Beatles songs as well as songs performed by Czechoslovakian interprets. Thanks to the comments of the singers and music publicists it is pointed out that The Beatles had a huge impact on Czechoslovakian society as, apart from the music itself, the band had a symbolic meaning creating a connection with the democratic world for the Czechoslovaks. The theoretical part of the thesis mainly deals with the definition of the radio documentary. It describes the particularities of radio broadcasting and it briefly mentions the history of radio broadcasting in Czechoslovakia. The creation of the radio documentary is also described in the practical part. It explains why the author decided to choose this topic and also the respondents and the choice of the target audience is clarified. The problems the author had to solve while working on this bachelor's thesis are mentioned and so are the experiences that I gained while...
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