Lidskoprávní šílenství:mediální reprezentace inkluzivního vzdělávání v denících Blesk, Aha! a MF DNES
Human Rights Madness:Media Representation of Inclusive Education and its Comparison in Blesk, Aha! and MF DNES Daily Newspapers

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes and compares the media representation of inclusive education in threeCzech daily newspapers (Blesk, Aha!, and MF DNES) during the 2014–2017 period. In 2016,an amendment to the Schools Act was adopted, stipulating that children with special needswere to be gradually included into the classes of mainstream primary schools. Despite itstabloid focus, Blesk paid unusually close attention to this topic: it set up aspecial section calledStop the Harmful Inclusion and launched asystematic negative campaign against the amend-ment. The paper examines the mechanisms Blesk used in the campaign and compares its rep-resentation of inclusive education with another tabloid newspaper Aha! and abroadsheetnewspaper MF DNES. The results show that Blesk employed various editorial strategies astools to support negative image of inclusive education: e.g., it gave voice primarily to sourcescritical of inclusive education, selected topics pointing out negative aspects of the amendment,and adopted mostly negative framing. On the other hand, MF DNES offered amore balancedrepresentation, and the other tabloid daily Aha! paid only minimal attention to this topic.

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