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Analysis of media appeasement in the British press in the 1930s
Charvát, Ondřej ; Valkoun, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Novotný, Lukáš (referee)
The thesis studies the political and journalistic history of Great Britain in the 1930s. The main topic of the thesis is the mapping and subsequent analysis of the British periodical press in the mentioned period. It primarily deals with the so-called media appeasement of the British press in relation to the established foreign policy of Great Britain, the concessions of its leading representatives to Benito Mussoliniʼs fascist Italy, and subsequently to Adolf Hitlerʼs Nazi Germany. Thesis examines differences in the approach of individual periodicals to the presentation of specific foreign-political topics that resonated in the period before the outbreak of the Second World War. The study defines which periodicals tended to government policy and analyses how they did so. It also examines whether British newspapers were inclined towards the mentioned extremist regimes. Special attention is given to British newspaper market and the ties of newspaper houses and owners to the political scene of Great Britain.

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