| Abstract [eng] |
The tolerance is apprehensible as value which if achieved can consolidate nations, prevent discrimination and assure peace and unity in the entire world. The role of media is very important because it represent the interest of community and has a possibility to influence our attitudes, opinions and thinking. So media can help to preserve the tolerance in community, promote and guide democratic values, protect ideals of the equality. The object of this master’s paper is the expression of tolerance in Lithuanian periodical press. The aim of the paper is to analyze the problem of tolerance in Lithuanian periodical press. Papers goals are to explore the conception of tolerance, review the role of tolerance in the alterations of the community, explore the media’s influence on tolerance and analyze the role of rumors, gossips and objectivity in media. In order to analyze the problem of tolerance in Lithuanian press (in the newspapers „Lietuvos rytas“ and „Vakaro žinios“), master’s work presents the analysis of the peculiarities of the Romany presentation in press. The methods of the analysis are information gathering, analysis of the data, comparative quantitative and qualitative analysis. Analysis reveals that tolerance means respect and acceptance of the persuasions, attitudes and values of the otherwise thinking people without reference to their gender or race or other differences. Tolerance has a close connection with human rights, which must be ensured by every democratic state. This research reveals that there is lack of tolerance in most popular periodical press in Lithuania. The presentation of the Romany ethnicity in analyzed newspapers is in particular unfavorable. It shows the dominance of the negative information about this ethnic minority. The Romany people are presented only as a felony group. Media highlights their criminal offences, conflicts with the governmental institutions and their negative features of character. It can be an inducement for community to form a low opinion of the Romany and bad stereotypes about them. This master‘s paper is important for it’s originality, because there have not been any research on tolerance in Lithuanian press. The master’s paper can be useful to the experienced scientists and the beginners, to practicing journalists and students, lectures, newspaper editors and readers. |
