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New Wednesday of New Times by Peter Uj.
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Péter Rózsa, editor-in-chief of the weekly 168 Óra, was fired last September, writes Media1. The newspaper’s CEO and co-owner, Pál Milkovics, justified the move by saying that in a new issue of the weekly, a previous Advent photo of Viktor Orbán and his family appeared inappropriately.
According to Milkovics, the communication of the image is unacceptable and morally worrying, as it also shows the prime minister’s youngest son, and “the image was used as an illustration for a text outside the prime minister’s family.” He stressed that “children, regardless of their parents’ role in society, must be protected, not used for political messages and made targets of hatred.” Milkovics was so upset by this that he tried to call the newspaper from Lapker, but this was no longer possible for technical reasons.
The already weird reaction turns weird when we look at that particular photo:
This is not an evil cartoon or an unusually disadvantageous press photo (though editors are not often fired for reporting), but specifically a public relations image that the Prime Minister has posted on his Facebook page to promote himself. And the compilation, for which it was used as an illustration, deals with the family and social policy of the Orbán government.
Milkovics told Media1: he was spiritually prepared that the removal of the editor-in-chief would lead to an attack that the NER should have come in person, but still, they would be unfounded attacks: the editor-in-chief simply went beyond good taste When so, it prints the paper with this mismatched image.
The new acting editor-in-chief, József Makai, will be Milkovics’s other newspaper, the current deputy editor-in-chief of Pesti Hírlap.
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