The present master thesis brings into focus the media picture of the miners' strike in Labin in 1987, how it was represented by the Croatian daily newspapers Vjesnik and Glas Istre at the time of the strike and in the weeks after the end of the strike in 1987. The theoretical framework consists of the concepts of myth (Barthes, 2015), representation (Hall, 2004) and discourse (Foucault, 2001, etc.). Using the method of critical discourse analysis, I tried to deconstruct the discursively constructed myth of the miner as a "shirker" in the mentioned daily newspapers and answer the research questions. I was interested in how the strike appeared in the analysed daily newspapers, whose voice was heard in the reporting of the strike, and how the media turned up from glorification to the demonization of a worker in a socialist system in which the worker was regarded as a symbol of pride. The analysis of empirical data revealed that media stories were mainly supported by accessed voices (Hartley, 1982) of power (administration, local government, leaders, trade unions, etc.), while the voice of miners was neglected in reporting. In the forefront of informing about the strike in Glas Istre and Vjesnik, there were issues of financial losses due to strike and antagonism between »us« and »them«, miners who posed irrational requirements.
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