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Media coverage of the Pentagon Papers affair in the newspapers Rudé právo, The New York Times and The Times
Šimečková, Karolína ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Charvát, Jakub (referee)
The bachelor's thesis "Media portrayal of the Pentagon Papers affair in The New York Times, Rudé právo and The Times" focuses on the events related to the Pentagon Papers affair from mid-1971, specifically the analysis of newspaper texts on the topic. The problem of this scandal is captured in the period before its revelation (from May 31 to June 13, 1971), two weeks after its disclosure in June (from June 13 to June 30, 1971), and up to mid-July (from July 1 to July 14, 1971). Within the theoretical part of the thesis, the concept of propaganda is explained, along with an introduction to the newspapers themselves, their history, and contemporary characteristics. Subsequently, the historical-political context of the Pentagon Papers affair is explained, including a brief background on the Vietnam War and two key figures and their role in revealing the report to the public. During the comparative analysis of the newspapers The New York Times, Rudé právo, and The Times, the topics, content of texts, lexical level of articles, as well as the style of presentation and news value of individual contributions are monitored. The aim of the thesis is to create a comprehensive overview of the different processing of the identical scandal by newspapers with different tendencies, caused not only but primarily...
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The depiction of the Watergate scandal in the movies: Comparison of feature films and documentaries
Verem, Anja ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
The diploma thesis The depiction of the Watergate scandal in the movies: Comparison of feature films and documentaries focuses on portrayal of journalists and the Watergate scandal on film. It illustrates this on examples of specific feature films and documentaries, which have been made about this topic. These particular movies are All the President's Men (1976), Frost/Nixon (2008), Watergate (2018), Our Nixon (2013) a Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words (2014). In the first part of the thesis summarises the general history of the portrayal of journalists and media on film. It also contains the introduction of the key players in the Watergate scandal, which are Richard Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Furthermore, this part also describes the history of the newspaper The Washington Post and the Watergate scandal itself. The next part focuses on defining the basic terms used in the thesis, such as for example feature film, documentary, investigative journalist etc. The third and the last part, then concentrates on comparing and analysing the six aforementioned chosen films with the help of comparative method, which should lead to the final results. The primary question, in which this thesis focuses, is how (and if) the portrayal of the Watergate scandal differentiates in feature films and...
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