Márton Kárpáti considered it important to refute a statement from the Pál Szombathy interview published on Monday morning.

It’s been just a few months since the editorial office was created due to the removal of the Index Editor-in-Chief and a new news portal called Telex was launched, and the executives appointed in his place have already been kicked out of the top. of the Index. So, in a shortened semester, one of Hungary’s leading news portals has gone two rounds – follow the events in our article series with us.

Former Index employee and current journalist and media manager at Telex, Márton Kárpáti It wasn’t like that, Pali! responded in a communication to 24.hu For his interview with Pál Szombathy. Kárpáti left most of the statements in the interview without comment, only reacting to the fact that, according to Szombathy, the outgoing indices had a plan B at the time of joint termination and already knew about Telex.

“Compared with this, the truth is that the newsroom did not have a plan B, the title Telex.hu came to us long after our dismissal, the company that publishes Telex was also established later, and no one said, suggested, indicated, advised to the fired members of the editorial board, he suggested they resign. Saying otherwise is a lie. The editorial board resigned and assumed total uncertainty because it was beaten because, against the promise of several weeks and the principles of the Index, László Bodolai fired editor-in-chief Szabolcs Dull. The day before the dismissals, Pál Szombathy, László Bodolai and András Sztankóczy also said that if we do not accept the dismissal of Szabolcs, they will rise because “the Index is you.” Everyone knows what happened after that. It was not the pessimists who were right, but us, ”the statement read.

Pál Szombathy remained the editor-in-chief of the newspaper for just four months after the termination of virtually the entire Index. In a recent interview with him, he justified it believing that he would be allowed to work freely and without knowing the loophole that Indamedia, owned by the manager of NER Miklós Vaszily, could buy back the newspaper with a foundation history.


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As acting editor-in-chief, Zoltán Fekete-Szalóky will take over the management of the portal after the departure of Pál Szombathy.

Farewell Ágerg Gergely Balogh returned to the Index



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Paul Szombathy fired him, but then the owner of Fidesz fired Szombathy.