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Media portrayal of Andrej Babis in Mladá fronta Dnes, Právo and Lidové noviny
Rejmonová, Zuzana ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis "Media image of Andreje Babiš in the following newspapers: Mladá fronta DNES, Právo Hospodářské noviny and Lidové noviny in the connotation with the affair of a stork's nest" focuses on issue of the media image of an important public figure, politician and head representative of the most popular party in our republic in the time periods chosen for the purpose of this diploma thesis (May 2016, August 2017 and March 2018). It is a well known fact, that Andrej Babiš purchased, through his company Agrofert certain media, for example Mladá fronta DNES and Lidové noviny, in the year 2013. This diploma thesis is an attempt to portray if a fact of this acquisition had any influence on media image of Andrej Babiš in those newspapers, meaning Mladá fronta DNES and Lidové noviny. This media image is going to be compared with the media image of Andrej Babiš in the same time periods in the newspapers Právo and Hospodářské noviny. Newspapers that are exempt of any and all influence of Andrej Babiš. This diploma thesis presents concept, that desribes how media construct reality, which enables the very existence of media image. It also presents as its core concepts: an agenda setting and a media ownership. Attention to Andrej Babiš and to our chosen newspapers is of course also paid. The quantitative...
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The Media Image of the Political Protests Organised by the Society Milion Chvilek
Sehnalová, Anna ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Dvořák, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the influence of media ownership on media depiction of anti-government protests in 2019 organized by a civic organization Milion Chvilek (Million Moments for Democracy) in daily newspapers Lidové noviny and Hospodářské noviny through a comparative content analysis. Lidové noviny is a part of MAFRA media group owned by current Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš with his ownership share placed in a trust managed by his wife and other close associates. Daily newsprint and other publications in this media group found themselves in a situation where they had to report about protests focused on their de facto owner. A public debate centered around Andrej Babiš's possible conflict of interest has been ongoing since his entry into politics. Babiš's strong position in the media industry is one of the debate's focal points. According to his critics, this position could enable him to manipulate public mood which would provide him with an unfair advantage in the political arena. On a selected sample of articles about 2019 protests published in the above-mentioned newspapers, this media analysis strives to unveil to what extent the coverage, tone and space for commentaries from politicians and other public actors in Lidové noviny differ from Hospodářské noviny, which is deemed most...
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Trump vs. Babiš: Comparative case study of populist leadership, communication,and party politics in the post-Gutenberg era
Húsková, Eva ; Hornát, Jan (advisor) ; Fiřtová, Magdalena (referee)
The main purpose of this master thesis is to examine the concept of populism in the post- Gutenberg era. The research stems from a premise that the evolution of the political milieu and change of the media landscape implies a need for a different approach to analyzing populism. The decline of traditional political parties, the disappearance of political cleavages, and the personalization of politics precipitate the need to re-evaluate the debate about the right definition of populism. Based on a comparative case study of two leaders - Andrej Babiš and Donald Trump, this thesis examines how various theories of populism explain their behavior and tries to determine the most suitable option. Three definitions of populism are studied - populism as an ideology, populism as a discourse, and populism as a political style. While comparing political programs, discourse, and marketing strategies of both candidates, this thesis offers a complex insight into political campaigning on both sides of the Atlantic. At the same time, this research discusses the relationship between the concept of populism and personalized politics. These two concepts form a personalized leadership where the combination of populism and personality traits of the leader might influence the political programs, discourse, and marketing...
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Receiving information about politics and public events in filter bubbles in the Facebook environment
Halaštová, Eliška ; Císař, Ondřej (advisor) ; Mitrenga, David (referee)
This thesis describes the acceptance of information about politics and public life in filtered bubbles through Facebook. It tries to show the new phenomenon of filtered bubbles, which may have an impact on the quality of the information awareness of the general citizenry. Considering that theories of representative democracy usually describe well-informed citizens as one of the conditions of a functional democracy, the thesis considers whether or not informational isolation caused by the bubbles may have an impact on the quality of democracy in a given country. It goes on to describe how the Facebook algorithm helps to informationally isolate users in two distinct groups - fans and opponents of the Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babiš. It shows the difference in the reception of information in different informational bubbles. A content analysis of posts in both Facebook groups, paired with an analysis of interviews with participants, shows that opinion groups differ in their reception of information, meaning that they also differ in the diversity of information received, the quality of info, the trust in public service media and a willingness to discuss. Conversely, common themes in reception of information include a growth in the importance of Facebook as a media source, a transition from active searches for...
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Partisanship and Political or Opinion Bias in Western Media
Šimek, Jan ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Charvát, Jakub (referee)
This bachelor thesis explores the question of explicit and implicit opinion bias of mass media in the Czech Republic, the Great Britain, and the USA. The first section of this work is dedicated to a brief historical development of media as a party in the public debate, with focus on the 20th and 21st century. This is followed by an analysis and media reflection of the dividing topics in the selected time frame and a closer inspection upon the journalistic scenes in the selected countries regarding their political and opinion biases. The main core of this work is an analysis of the selected media's attitudes towards principal topics of political and societal reality in each country.
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Evaluation of Andrej Babis' Cabinet - February 2020
Červenka, Jan
In February survey, the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on evaluation of Andrej Babis' government. 42% of Czechs are satisfied with the person of Prime Minister, 52% are dissatisfied, 44% are satisfied with government's performance and 51% are not. Government's program 48% of Czechs evaluate positively, 37% hold the opposite stance. Communication with public is seen positively by 47% of Czechs, 46% evaluate it negatively. Personal composition of Babis' government (36% satisfied / 56% dissatisfied) is area in which we found the most critical evaluation of public.
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Analysis of communication and argumentation of Andrej Babiš presented in TV programmes Otázky Václava Moravce (Question of Václav Moravec) and Iterview ČT24 in the years 2014-2017
Vitáčková, Eliška ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the verbal and nonverbal communication of the former Minister of Finance Andrej Babiš and especially examines his ability to argue. The thesis consists of two parts. The theoretical part explains the basic concepts - verbal communication, language means, nonverbal communication, argument and argumentation and pragmatic linguistics. The analytical part of the thesis is based on the principles of qualitative research. The programs of Czech Television - Questions of Václav Moravec and Interview ČT24 were selected for the analysis. The choice of these programs was mainly related to their nature. In the case of Interview ČT24, one moderator and one guest are present. In Questions of Václav Moravec, Andrej Babiš gets into a controversy not only with the moderator of the discussion, but also with other guests. For the analysis of the mentioned areas were selected parts of programs in 2014, when Babiš became Minister of Finance, and in 2017, in which he last acted as Minister of Finance. Between these years, episodes in 2015 and in 2016 were chosen, which made it possible to follow the development of Babiš's speech over the time. The final chapter then summarizes the main findings of the research. The result of this thesis is a characteristics of the speech and appearance of...
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Babiš vs. Bakala. Comparison of the Media Image of Zdeněk Bakala in the MF Dnes, Hospodářské noviny and Právo Dailies
Trojanová, Tereza ; Miessler, Jan (advisor) ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to analyze the media image of the influential Czech businessman Zdenek Bakala who is also the owner of the company Economia, publisher of Hospodarske noviny. Bakala is a member of a small group of Czech billionaires who have completely taken control over the most important media groups and thus all national dailies over the last decade. Politician Andrej Babis is also concidered as one of them. His entry into the media market after the acquisition of the Mafra was the most significant moment for the rise of the so-called oligarchization of domestic media. Czech media ownership changes have raised suspicions that these modern media magnates have acquired the media in order to defend their economic and political interests. There are concerns mainly because they could influence the content of the media and thus disrupt editorial freedom and jeopardize the functioning of the entire media system. They can also use their media power to influence public opinion, which is largely shaped by the media. This thesis will therefore want to verify whether the owners use their influence in their media. This assumption will be demonstrated on the analysis of Zdenek Bakala's media image. Firstly, the research examines the way his own Hospodarske noviny informed about him and finds...
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How Language Possess Mind - Quantitative Content Analysis of the Rhetoric of ANO, SPD and IvČRN Political Movements in Relation to Totalitarian Language of the Third Reich
Ligas, Aleš ; Franěk, Jakub (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
This thesis deals with the influence of the European Migration Crisis in 2015 on the number of uses of selected features of totalitarian language in the rhetoric of ANO movement chairman Andrej Babiš, SPD chairman Tomia Okamura and IvČRN initiative leader Martin Konvička. This work aims to use new quantitative methods to examine over time the frequency and structure of the characters used in totalitarian language based on the concept of politics of eternity of the American historian Timothy Snyder. The occurrence of signs of totalitarian language was monitored on the social network Facebook in the period 2013-2017. The results of the analysis show an increase in the use of features of the totalitarian language with the onset of the migration crisis. In the end, a comparison of the monitored political actors and a contextual interpretation of the findings is given.
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