Řízení tisku v letech 1939-1945: Analýza protektorátních tiskových porad [Press Regulation from 1939...

The study deals with the issue of press regulation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from 1939–1945. It provides a brief introduction of the mechanisms influencing the contents and formal aspects of the press communication to match the interests and needs of the occupying forces. The main part of the paper presents the results of a quantiative analysis of minutes from press conferences, regularly organized for journalists by the Press Department of the Council of Ministers. During these conferences, members of the Press Department and the Cultural and Political Department of the Reich Protector evaluated the achievements of the media during the previous period and gave instructions to the representatives of the periodicals about the content and style of their writing. These meetings thus represented one of the most important regulatory instruments of the protectoral press. The analysis presents their formal structure and demonstrates, using the examples of specific speeches, that the efforts to influence media communication flows did not have solely a repressive nature but also a clearly manipulative dimension.