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Bod, Tamás
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Where does racism begin?
According to the left-liberal daily Népszabadság there are many people in Hungary who rant and rave against the Roman and Jewish minorities but don't see themselves as racist. "All they know how to do is steal, cheat and lie' … 'I don't really have a problem with them but I think it would be best if they went back to where they came from, to India'. … That's what most of the racist and radical statements about the Roma minority sound like. … The most common anti-Semitic statements are: 'There's a Jewish global conspiracy', 'They're to blame for everything', 'They started world wars and economic crises, and the current crisis is their fault too', … 'soon they'll take over Hungary'. … The majority of those who say such things don't see themselves as racist. 'Never ever' … They're just 'Hungarians born and bred'. But this raises the question of what is racism if this isn't."
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More from the press review on the subject » Integration, » Minorities, » Weltanschauung, » Hungary
The mayor's newspaper
Hungary's local press is largely in the hands of municipal authorities. This means that the respective city council decides who heads editorial desks, and editors-in-chief are very much aware of the fact that their future depends on the will of the majority in the city council. There can be no talk of journalistic independence or the public exercising a controlling function in such cases, journalist Tamás Bod points out: "Just under 20 years since the fall of communism, it's still unclear who owns the local newspapers: the entire nation, the city council, the majority on the city council or the mayor himself? In most cases one can observe that the mayor, or at best the majority on the city council, decides what is written and how it's written in these newspapers - which are financed with public money! ... Without doubt the level of political pressure varies, just as there are differences between the regional newspapers, but the situation is nonetheless absurd."
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