Publication details
Circulus vitiosus nedůvěry/hodnosti českých žurnalistů: K některým příčinám ztráty důvěry
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper identifies some predictors of increasing mistrust of Czech journalists among the Czech population and seeks an explanation for the collapse of trust, which may be connected with: (a) long-term value asymmetries between the political attitudes of voters who are in favour of more centre-left values and journalists who are strongly identified with centre-right and liberal values, (b) the rejection of journalists working in the mainstream media as instruments of power who, in the eyes of the majority, do not represent its interests and only contribute to the legitimization of the post-1989 transformation process, and (c) the perceptions of media consumers who see journalists as co-culprits in their social problems. This paper identifies some predictors of increasing mistrust of Czech journalists among the Czech population and seeks an explanation for the collapse of trust, which may be connected with: (a) long-term value asymmetries between the political attitudes of voters who are in favour of more centre-left values and journalists who are strongly identified with centre-right and liberal values, (b) the rejection of journalists working in the mainstream media as instruments of power who, in the eyes of the majority, do not represent its interests and only contribute to the legitimization of the post-1989 transformation process, and (c) the perceptions of media consumers who see journalists as co-culprits in their social problems. This paper analyses the change of public trust in journalists in the Czech Republic and investigates the main characteristics of the mistrusting audiences. Comparative quantitative analyses based on two representative surveys of the Czech population reveals that the level of public trust in journalists declined significantly between 2004 and 2016. An explanation of increasing mistrust may be connected with: (a) socio-economic deprivation of media consumers, (b) long-term value asymmetries between the political attitudes of voters who are in favour of more centre-left values and journalists who are strongly identified with centre-right and liberal values, (c) split of ideal-typical image of a journalist in the eyes of Czech public. |
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