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Comparism of the Media Portrayal of the Karel Svoboda's death in Mladá fronta DNES and Blesk
Dernerová, Žaneta ; Halada, Jan (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This paper focuses on the medial image of the Czech pop music composer Karel Svoboda's death. It aims at comparing how this event was reported the so-called serious-minded newspapers and tabloids and finding out if the reporting was compatible with the newspapers' profile. The daily Mlada Fronta DNES was chosen as the representative of a serious-minded newspaper, and Blesk as the representative of tabloids. The composer's suicide filled pages of the newspapers weeks after his death. Karel Svoboda committed suicide in January 2007, thus the whole year is analysed. However, the period of three months after Svoboda's death is analysed in the most detail. Due to an intense medial attention, high popularity of Karel Svoboda, and the case of stolen pictures from the suicide scene, media are referring about the event to-date. Event though the period from the early 2008 to the present day (March 31st, 2014) is not particularly important, is also paid attention, albeit marginally. Only print versions of the newspapers are analysed (not internet versions.) Quantitative approach deals with the frequency of reporting of Karel Svoboda's death, qualitative approach pays attention to using language means, particular expressions, and mutual difference of the newspapers. Furthermore, rate of relevance, way of reporting, and...
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The visual image of Czech public figure suicide in print media
Novotný, Filip ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the media image of Czech public figure suicide in print media. Selected for analysis were the deaths of actor Vlastimil Brodský, composer Karel Svoboda, and singer Iveta Bartošová. The media to analyze are Blesk, a leading Czech tabloid, Mladá fronta DNES, a popular middlebrow newspaper, and Lidové noviny, commonly considered a serious, reputable daily. The goal of this paper is to compare the approaches amongst the selected media to the depiction of public figures and the sensitive issue of suicide, and secondly, to demonstrate the eventual progressional change thereof. Should a clear difference be proven to exist, this paper might also - as a secondary goal - become a minor contribution to the discussion concerning the supposed tabloidization of Czech media. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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