This post was originally published by Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF).
Media represent a crucial tool for providing frameworks for general interpretation and understanding of events and the dissemination of information. Thus, media not only report about social reality, but they help to shape our view of reality. Especially on remote subjects, detached from personal experience of the reader, such as the news from distant countries, the audience relies on impartial and factual reporting of media. Not surprisingly, given the role of media as shapers of local perceptions, various actors, starting with political and economic elites and ending with foreign powers, have long sought access to media in order to influence and manipulate narratives. In Central Europe, both Russia and China tick the box of such powers.
The analysis of this phenomenon is based on the study “From East with Love: Dissecting Pro-China Bias in Czech and Slovak Alternative Media”, which focuses on the topic of pro-China narratives in the Czech alternative media. The following is a summary of the main findings.
Read the whole article here.
