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Contemporary Press Coverage of Student Protests at the Tiananmen Square
Prokopová, Tereza Patricie ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Moravec, Václav (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to analyse how three newspapers, namely Rudé právo, The Guardian and The New York Times, presented the student protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. The period from 13 May 1989 to 26 June 1989 was chosen for the analysis, as it fully covers the situation preceding the massacre, the massacre of 4 June 1989 itslelf and its aftermath. In order to achieve the most accurate results, qualitative content analysis and so-called grounded theory will be used. The questions that will be answered through this thesis concern the specific aspects on which the individual newspapers placed emphasis, as well as how often the events were covered and with what temporal sequence, then which language features were used, and which reporting principles were applied within the news and journalistic texts. Based on the data collected, it was found that Rudé právo, ideologically charting communist mindset in China, held similar views to the Chinese Government, i.e. that the students attempted to overthrow the Government and the regime, and during the actual suppression of the protests, the soldiers were attacked by the students, not the other way around. The Guardian and The New York Times reported on the protests in a quite opposite way, regarding the protests as pro-democracy and the military...
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The path of Italian fascists to power and its reflection in the Czech press
Klouda, Daniel ; Mejstřík, Martin (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
This bachelor's thesis examines the rise of the Italian fascist movement from 1920 to 1922 and its reflection in selected Czech press. The theoretical part focuses on the Czech media landscape after World War I, followed by a description of the historical and political context of the events observed in Italy, briefly outlining the history of the fascist movement from its origins to Mussolini's appointment as prime minister. The practical part involves a qualitative analysis of articles covering six selected events involving Italian fascists, which were significant for the fascist movement. The choice of these events was influenced by their violent nature - through their violent actions, the fascists eliminated opposition and subsequently managed to discredit and undermine state authority and sovereignty to the extent that their rise to power seemed inevitable. The aim of this work is to monitor and compare interpretations of this development through selected events in three Czech newspapers: the national-democratic Národní listy, the independent Lidové noviny, and the communist Rudé právo. The thesis aims to analyze whether and how the ideological convictions of these newspapers were reflected in the rhetoric used to describe the fascist activities in the examined articles.
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Media reflection of feminism in Czech weekly newspapers in 2019
Součková, Alžběta ; Fousek Krobová, Tereza (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the image of feminism in Czech weekly newspapers during 2019. The thesis first focuses on the historical context and development of feminism in the Czech lands from the national revival and the struggle for women's social and political rights, through the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic and the acquisition of suffrage and through the official and real position of women during socialism, up to the post-revolutionary and contemporary image of feminism in the Czech Republic and its presentation in the media. The work also defines the space for analysis, it defines weekly news magazines and briefly summarizes their content focus, readability and print load. The thesis tries to get an answer to the question whether feminism and related topics were presented mostly negatively in Czech weekly newspapers in 2019. The analysis of the text, based on keywords, selects articles devoted to feminism and then categorizes them according to the tone into groups as negative, neutral or positive texts. The analysis brings both the total number of articles that dealt with the topic in each of weekly magazines during one year, as well as their number in individual categories. The conclusion of the thesis will bring the results of the analysis, while negative, neutral or...
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