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Lecturer(s)
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Orság Petr, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Contemporary Czech and world media. Basic trends. 2. Media barons, global empires (From Maxwell to Mudroch, Bertelsmann, Time Warner, etc.) 3. Vertical and horizontal concentration of ownership in the Czech Republic. The case of multimedia group Mafra, a. s. 4. Dailies publishing group VLP. Domestic regional newspapers. 5. Tabloidization of news. 6. Partisanship of the media as a marketing tool. 7. Ted Turner and the story of Total television news. Prospects for television news in Central Europe. 8. Media in extreme situations (war, terrorism, floods, etc.) 9. Investigative journalism in the contemporary Czech media. 10. Media and politics in the Czech Republic I.: The case of Stanislav Gross. 11. Media and politics in the Czech Republic II.: The case Srba. Slonková. 12. Media and politics in the world. The case of the BBC and David Kelly (Lord Hutton's report) 13. Failure of a mechanisms of control in the media. The case of Jayson Blair (NY Times) and Jack Kelley (USA Today).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
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Learning outcomes
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Reflection of a current trends in the Czech and western media. The course deals with the transformation of the Czech media system and gives attention to legal and technology changes. Attention is given to selected trends of the contemporary mass media (ownership, tabloidization of news, expanding possibilities of tne new media, investigative journalism in the Czech republic and in the world etc.).
Students will acquire skills of the course according to sylabus
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Prerequisites
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ability to work with specialized texts
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
Conditions for granting credit: - 75% participation in courses - Submitting written work, which will address some of the subject headings. Prior consultation with the teacher can focus or other personality problems. Compensatory work must be delivered no later than one week before the chosen date of the colloquium. Test: The test of course will be based on the above themes.
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Recommended literature
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AULETTA K. Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
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EDWARDS, D., CROMWELL, D. Guardians of power : the myth of the liberal media. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
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GARRY, P. M. The American vision of a free press : an historical and constitutional revisionist view of the press as a marketplace of ideas. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.
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HACK R. Clash of the Titans: How the Unbridled Ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch Has Created Global Empires that Control What We Read and Watch Each Day. New York: New Millennium Press, 2002.
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JUZL, M., Prokop, D. Boj o média. Praha : Karolinum, 2005.
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MOLLENHOFF, C. R. Investigative Reporting ? From Courthouse to White House. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1981..
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THOMPSON, J. B. Média a modernita. Praha : Karolinum, 2004.
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