Aircraft and Railway Accidents of Czechoslovak operators in 1948-1989 in daily press

Rigorous thesis Aircraft and Railway Accidents of Czechoslovak operators in 1948- 1989 deals with the description, historical context and above all, with media coverage of twenty serious traffic accidents that happened in Communistic Czechoslovakia. The thesis describes and compares the media coverage of these accidents in the sample of daily press (newspaper Rude pravo and Mlada fronta). It shows how the quantity and quality of media coverage has changed and also compares the approach of both newspapers. It aims towards finding factors that might have influenced the media coverage. The aim is, to show the changes of media contents and set the findings into historical, social, political and media- theoretical context