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Analysis of information sources in Czech dailies'coverage about the Dozimetr case
Rogner, Šimon ; Hanzal, Jaromír (advisor) ; Trunečka, Ondřej (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the information sources used by the Czech printed national serious daily newspapers (Deník N, E15, Hospodářské noviny, Lidové noviny, MF DNES, Právo) in their coverage of the Dozimetr case. The thesis uses quantitative content analysis to examine which information sources the dailies quoted in the first month after the beginning of the Dozimetr case. In June 2022, the police charged thirteen people in this case, including then- deputy mayor Petr Hlubuček and Zlín businessman Michal Redl, for alleged corruption in the Prague Transport Company. One of the objectives of the research is to determine the extent to which the media cited unnamed sources or non-public police documents. The alleged overuse of such sources is regularly repeated in discussions of media coverage of criminal cases. The theoretical part of the thesis summarises the typology of information sources, information sources used in criminal cases and the way information is provided from criminal proceedings according to Czech legislation and case law. It also presents the ethical challenges faced by the media in covering criminal cases. The results of the quantitative content analysis are also evaluated in qualitatively, which includes a critical assessment of the media's work and recommendations for...
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Czech films based on well-known criminal cases: from reality, newspaper /TV news to feature film and film reviews. Causa Velvet killers.
Rysová, Aneta ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The master thesis called "Czech films based on well-known criminal cases: from reality, newspaper/TV news to feature film and film reviews. Causa Velvet killers" deals with the notorious so-called Orlík Murders from the early 1990s. This case is considered as the biggest criminal case of the post-communist era in the Czech Republic. The group of five members killed five people, mainly for the money, between the years 1991 and 1993. Three of their victims were found in the Orlík Dam - two corpses were sealed in metal barrels and one was hidden in a mesh. The murderers were sentenced in 1997 after a four-year-long investigation. The movie called Velvet killers or The New Breed, which was directed by Jiří Svoboda, is based on these true events. This thesis focuses on the TV version of this motion picture and then also on the reviews published after the movie was released in 2005. This thesis mainly wants to reflect how the Czech media - specifically newspapers and television news - informed about this criminal case in analysed years from 1995 to 1997. The determining factor is the accuracy of the information. The aim of the work is to summarize the results of reporting on this case, which is still considered as one of the most brutal in the history of our country.
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Czech films based on well-known criminal cases: from reality, newspaper news to feature film and film reviews. Murder in Polná - Case of Leopold Hilsner
Zemánková, Markéta ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The thesis, called Czech films based on well-known criminal cases: from reality, newspaper news to feature film and film reviews. Murder in Polná - Case of Leopold Hilsner, deals with a criminal case which took place at the break of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. A young girl, Anežka Hrůzová, was murdered in the Březina woods outside the town of Polná. At a time when anti-Semitic sentiments dominated the society, a Polná resident and a Jew, Leopold Hilsner, was accused as the perpetrator of the crime. He was later convicted of this crime, and another one of a similar nature, even though there was no relevant evidence or testimonies. The period news outlets played a significant role in spreading the anti-Semitic tendencies. This thesis describes the course of this real-life case and focuses on the methods the media used to inform about it. Director Viktor Polesný made a film on the issue, Zločin v Polné (Murder in Polná), which is analysed in the thesis, along with the reviews written about this film, including the reception by viewers. The thesis compares the actual case with its film adaptation, and the responses of the media, which accompanied both the event itself and the film. Included in this work are also the historical context and the sources of the anti-Semitism of the...
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Berdych's Case in Czech Film: From Reality and Newspaper/TV News to Film and Film Reviews
Robotková, Martina ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Doležal, Aleš (referee)
The bachelor's thesis entitled "The Berdych case in Czech film: from reality and newspaper/TV news to film treatment to film reviews" deals with an organized criminal group that formed around David Berdych, the bouncer from Discoland Sylvia, in the early 1990s. The specificity of the Berdych's case lies in the fact that detectives from the Department for Combating Organized Crime (OBOZ) were part of the criminal gang and they were covering up the criminal activities of the gang over the years. The Berdych's gang committed kidnappings, thefts and robberies until 2004, when two detectives from OBOZ, Helena Kahnová and Tomáš Gregor, managed to uncover the gang. The thesis focuses on the media portrayal of the Berdych's case, using selected Czech news websites and news programmes. The Berdych's gang later inspired the TV Nova series Expozitura and the documentary film Zákon Helena by filmmaker Petra Nesvačilová. The thesis deals with the specifics of the TV series and the documentary film, analysis of these film works and reviews of film critics and the public. The aim of the work was to present a comprehensive picture of the Berdych's case, which has gone down in history as the biggest case of organised crime intertwined with the police in our history.
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Czech films based on well-known criminal cases: from reality, newspaper news to feature film and film reviews. Murder in Polná - Case of Leopold Hilsner
Jourová, Markéta ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The thesis, called Czech films based on well-known criminal cases: from reality, newspaper news to feature film and film reviews. Murder in Polná - Case of Leopold Hilsner, deals with a criminal case which took place at the break of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. A young girl, Anežka Hrůzová, was murdered in the Březina woods outside the town of Polná. At a time when anti-Semitic sentiments dominated the society, a Polná resident and a Jew, Leopold Hilsner, was accused as the perpetrator of the crime. He was later convicted of this crime, and another one of a similar nature, even though there was no relevant evidence or testimonies. The period news outlets played a significant role in spreading the anti-Semitic tendencies. This thesis describes the course of this real-life case and focuses on the methods the media used to inform about it. Director Viktor Polesný made a film on the issue, Zločin v Polné (Murder in Polná), which is analysed in the thesis, along with the reviews written about this film, including the reception by viewers. The thesis compares the actual case with its film adaptation, and the responses of the media, which accompanied both the event itself and the film. Included in this work are also the historical context and the sources of the anti-Semitism of the...
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Czech films based on well-known criminal cases: from reality, newspaper news to feature film and film reviews. Murder in Polná - Case of Leopold Hilsner
Jourová, Markéta ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The thesis, called Czech films based on well-known criminal cases: from reality, newspaper news to feature film and film reviews. Murder in Polná - Case of Leopold Hilsner, deals with a criminal case which took place at the break of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. A young girl, Anežka Hrůzová, was murdered in the Březina woods outside the town of Polná. At a time when anti-Semitic sentiments dominated the society, a Polná resident and a Jew, Leopold Hilsner, was accused as the perpetrator of the crime. He was later convicted of this crime, and another one of a similar nature, even though there was no relevant evidence or testimonies. The period news outlets played a significant role in spreading the anti-Semitic tendencies. This thesis describes the course of this real-life case and focuses on the methods the media used to inform about it. Director Viktor Polesný made a film on the issue, Zločin v Polné (Murder in Polná), which is analysed in the thesis, along with the reviews written about this film, including the reception by viewers. The thesis compares the actual case with its film adaptation, and the responses of the media, which accompanied both the event itself and the film. Included in this work are also the historical context and the sources of the anti-Semitism of the...
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Czech films based on well-known criminal cases: from reality, newspaper news to feature film and film reviews. Murder in Polná - Case of Leopold Hilsner
Zemánková, Markéta ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The thesis, called Czech films based on well-known criminal cases: from reality, newspaper news to feature film and film reviews. Murder in Polná - Case of Leopold Hilsner, deals with a criminal case which took place at the break of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. A young girl, Anežka Hrůzová, was murdered in the Březina woods outside the town of Polná. At a time when anti-Semitic sentiments dominated the society, a Polná resident and a Jew, Leopold Hilsner, was accused as the perpetrator of the crime. He was later convicted of this crime, and another one of a similar nature, even though there was no relevant evidence or testimonies. The period news outlets played a significant role in spreading the anti-Semitic tendencies. This thesis describes the course of this real-life case and focuses on the methods the media used to inform about it. Director Viktor Polesný made a film on the issue, Zločin v Polné (Murder in Polná), which is analysed in the thesis, along with the reviews written about this film, including the reception by viewers. The thesis compares the actual case with its film adaptation, and the responses of the media, which accompanied both the event itself and the film. Included in this work are also the historical context and the sources of the anti-Semitism of the...
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The Case Cervanova: from reality, newspaper news to feature film and film reviews.
Zajíčková, Monika ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
The master thesis "The Case Cervanova: from reality and newspaper to feature film and film reviews" deals with a criminal case that happened in the summer of 1976. Young student Ľudmila Cervanová was kidnapped, raped and killed. The perpetrators were caught in 1981 and the judicial process lasted until 2006. Several literary works have been written and two films have been made, Bolero and Kauza Cervanová. The work focuses on literary works and on both films where it examines the context in which the authors presented the story and how they worked with the facts. In both films, emphasis is also placed on how they were received and judged by the media and the public, thus the work examines the reviews and opinions of the audience. Emphasis is also placed on newspaper of that time and their interpretation of the case. The research sample contains all the relevant dates. That is, from June 1981 to October 1982 (the period of detention and conviction of the offenders), together with April 1983 (decision of the appeal court). The research sample of this period includes four main daily newspapers of that time: Mladá fronta: deník mladých lidí; Lidová demokracie: Orgán československé strany lidové; Rudé právo: Orgán Československé sociálně demokratické strany dělnické a Svobodné slovo. Another relevant...
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Olga Hepnar's Case in Czech Film: From Reality and Newspaper News to Movie and Movie Reviews
Kotoučová, Ditta ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
The master thesis called "Olga Hepnar's Case in Czech Film: From Reality and Newspaper News to Movie and Movie Reviews" deals with the case of Olga Hepnar who deliberately drove the truck into a group of people at a tram stop in the Obranců míru street on Tuesday 10th of July and killing eight of them. For her crime, Hepnar was sentenced to death and was executed in March 1975 as the last woman in Czechoslovakia. The movie called I, Olga Hepnar by directors Petr Kazda and Tomáš Weinreb is based on these true events. This thesis focuses on this movie and its portrayal of to reality, as well as on the reviews that have been published in selected journals and professional film magazines after the premiere of the film. The thesis also presents the coverage of topics in selected journals in the week following the crime, from July 10 to July 17, 1973. The aim of the thesis is to describe in a comprehensive way the results of the Olga Hepnar crime story, which has entered the history of Czechoslovakia.
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Case Radovan Krejčíř - from reality and newspaper/TV news to book and film cover and film critiqueíř
Pilek, Šimon ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
The main topic of dissertation named "Case Radovan Krejčíř - from reality and newspaper/TV news to book and film cover and film critique" is person of Radovan Krejčíř, one of the biggest Czech criminals in the history of the country. A controversial billionaire was caught up in many criminal cases already in nineties, and not only in Czech Republic. He escaped the country in the spring of 2005 because of the danger of arrest and then he got on with pursuits against the law in the Seychelles (2005 - 2007) and later on also in South Africa (2007 - 2013). In South Africa in 2013, he was arrested and subsequently sentenced to 35 years in prison. However, the case is not yet completely closed, because there are some other Krejčíř's South African cases, that the judge's decisions are still pending. Life story of Radovan Krejčíř inspired investigative journalist and publicist Jaroslav Kmenta to write book trilogy Padrino Krejčíř (African - 2014, Gangster - 2015 and Shark - 2016) and director Jan Pachl to make a two movies (Gangster Ka and Gangster Ka: African - both 2015). The goal of this dissertation was not just to bring the complete picture of the Krejčíř's criminal career as it was portrayed by the media, publicist Jaroslav Kmenta and director Jan Pachl - and how media critics reviewed book and film...
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