newspaper prices

If I buy the local so-called "left" newspaper, it costs 16 crowns (I think; I'm not checking.)
If I buy the so-called business newspaper, it costs 25 crowns.

That's a big difference. 

Yesterday, I was struck by the portraits of business personalities.  Large photos of businessmen posing.  Yes, I do mean posing.  Standing in a smart suit with legs arranged in what ballet calls a third or almost fifth position, with one hand on the rail of stairs.  (Or did I imagine it?)

Arms crossed over the chest, as if to emphasize one's manliness.

And so on.

Could the price have something to do with these silly pictures?  I mean it reminds me of the friend who once said (looking at the aesthetics of a communist era dormitory in Bratislava):  It's not just that the Communists had no taste, but they actually attempted (and failed) to propagate some sort of new aesthetic.....  (IE better if they had stuck to purely utilitarian buildings)...

Something similar seems to me to be true of the local business newspaper.  This is pure hagiography,  Just as in the medieval times there were statues of saints, now we've got these portraits of successful businessmen.

And those propagandistic drums!  I mean when you repeat something a thousand times, it lose all meaning, right?

As in the man who runs a construction business and was inspired (sic) by American practices.
Would-be workers wait around outside near the construction site, and the employer comes around and chooses the fittest.  (Reminds me of a slave auction)  The Czech enterpreneur, inspired by the American system, had been doing that until the naughty government came and made a terrible "labor law" (how dare they?!)---and so he could no longer hire people in that fashion.

The newspaper coyly notes that he actually complained of "socialism"!

I must study this with greater objectivity---"this" meaning this so-called business newspaper.  It is really an outstanding piece of anthropology.  What sort of culture would produce this entity?  What sort of culture would produce such a cult?