The Media as a Tool of Social Exclusion - an Example of Presentation of the Roma in the Czech Media
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The article presents and compares the basic findings of two surveys focused on the presentation of the Roma ethnic minority in the Czech media: 1) the research on Czech nation-wide daily newspapers: Mladá fronta Dnes, Právo, Lidové noviny, Zemské noviny, Moravské slovo published between 10/1/2000 and 3/31/2003, and 2) the research on main news programmes on Czech TV – Události, and on a commercial channel Nova – Televizní noviny, broadcast in the calendar year 2000. The article is looking for common features of the studied minority presentation in these media. It finds them mainly in the news values (on whose basis the events to be presented are selected) and in the content embedding of the presented events. It directs attention to the risks connected with such presentation of the Roma minority that accentuates stereotypes the Czech population has of this ethnic group and that can lead to its social exclusion. |
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