Publication details
Česká a slovenská média o vstupu do NATO: obsahová analýza před madridským summitem
| Title in English | The Czech and Slovak Media on the Entry of the Czech Republic to NATO: the Subjekt Analyses of the Press before the Madrid Summit |
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| Year of publication | 1999 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Politologický časopis |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | NATO; public opinion; media; |
| Description | In order to understand the medial discourse of discussion about the admission of the Czech Republic to the NATO we made a content analysis of the Czech press. The press was represented by two mostly read dailies (Mladá Fronta Dnes and Právo) and by periodicals Naše pravda (the Czech communist party paper) and Republika (republican party a la Len Pen nationalists paper). Articles connected with the existence and expansion of the NATO, published quarter of a year before the Madrid Summit, were analysed. The Madrid Summit made a final decision about the beginning of the process of Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic affiliation to the NATO. The analysis confirmed three discourses of the debate, when the three individual discourses do not clash with each other and they result in three monologues: right-wing (for the admission), left-wing and nationalist (against it). The situation is analogous to the split in the public opinion. Left discourse understands the NATO entry as a completion of a temporal lost of communism and establishment of gains of the contra-revolution. It is perceived only as a big conspiracy against the working people and against the Russia. Europe will pay for that by a new iron curtain, the Czech Republic by a lost of its sovereignty and its population by decline in their living standard. Right discourse is based on the idea of our country admission to the NATO as a confirmation of its return to Euro-American (Western) civilization. |
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