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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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Media portrayal of Andrej Babis before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of the Czech republic in 2017
Hanus, Josef ; Hanzal, Jaromír (advisor) ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (referee)
The Master's thesis focuses on the creation of the media image of one of the most distinctive and controversial current Czech politicians, Andrej Babiš, in the period prior to the 2017 general elections in the Czech Republic. The media image building process is viewed through the lens of agenda-setting theory in major daily newspapers and the Facebook page of ANO, Mr. Babiš's party. The aim of the thesis is to use mixed research to describe the creation of Mr. Babiš's media persona and to determine whether media discourse was influenced by intermedia agenda-setting process. In the quantitative analysis of this research, the volume and content of topics established by Mr. Babiš's media activity will be explored. The topic with the greatest relevancy and frequency will be used to determine the framework of the creation of Mr. Babiš's media image, discuss to what extent Mr. Babiš managed to control the outcome, and what role was played by the intermedia agenda-setting process. Keywords Andrej Babis, agenda-setting, daily newspapers, Facebook, media image building
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Analysis of media antibabisimus as a manifestation of negativity
Fryčková, Markéta ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Miessler, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis is dealing with theoretical concept of negativity and investigates its concrete form on the concept of "antibabisism". The thesis refers to concepts of negativity in general, negativity in media content and also to negativity in political media content. Individual research of the thesis focuses on quantitative content analysis in a few selected czech media and also tries to confirm or reject existence of "antibabisism" in media and politics.
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