Media presentation of the death of Jan Masaryk in Czech press in the years 1968 and 1969

The target of the thesis was to prove that changing political situation and situation around censorship in the years 1968 and 1969. int1uenced the media presentation of the death of former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovak Republic Jan Masaryk. He died in 1948 under the strange and unexplained circumstances, shortly after the communist party took control over the Republic. The only one official version valid for 20 years was that he undoubtedly committed suicide. I assumed that after the revolutionary social changes and liberalisation in the year 1968, called Prague spring, a lot of theories and versions of Masaryk's death (murder, political murder. accident...) occurred in the newspaper. My hypothesis was that after the restoration of restrictions in society and restoration of censorship after the invasion of armies of Warsaw pact in August 1968 and during so called Normalisation, the media presentation of the Masaryk's death turned into the state that was valid for the previous twenty years - suicide, and that the number of articles decreased rapidly. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)Cílem této diplomové práce je pomocí článků z 5 celostátních deníků (Lidová demokracie, Mladá fronta, Svobodné slovo, Zemědělské noviny, Rudé právo), zabývajících se okolnostmi úmrtí bývalého ministra zahraničních věcí Jana Masaryka, potvrdit hypotézu, že politická situace a cenzura měla bezprostřední vliv na mediální prezentaci Masarykovy smrti. Konkrétně, že po uvolnění společenských poměrů v Československu na jaře 1968 se v médiích objevily alternativní teorie smrti zpochybňující dvacet let proklamovanou oficiální verzi sebevraždy. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)Katedra mediálních studiíDepartment of Media StudiesFaculty of Social SciencesFakulta sociálních vě