When you hear the term "German propaganda", a chill runs down the spine of many people, and probably the activities of Goebbels come to mind for some. However, German propaganda did not only operate during the Nazi Third Reich, but also before and after its fall , wrote the Demokrata following Hirado.hu.
Like Euronews, Deutsche Welle starts broadcasting in Hungary a year before the election. The latter produced clearly pro-immigration reports during the migration crisis and tried to undermine the position of the Hungarian government.
Boris Kálnoky, the former Budapest and Central European correspondent of Die Welt and the head of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium media school, said in this regard on Kossuth Radio that there is an unwritten rule in the German media that "Either say bad things about Hungary or nothing", and whoever says this breaks the rules, they are labeled as siding with nationalist, anti-Semitic forces.
, Magyar Nemzet wrote that, according to Jan Mainka, the editor-in-chief of the Budapester Zeitung, his colleagues at home are also guided by their left-wing convictions, which are stronger than respect for the facts. In the same article, they remind us that Der Spiegel recently put it this way: " Viktor Orbán incites against gays, lesbians and others who do not zealously follow the conservative family ideal." According to Deutsche Welle: "The Orbán government is courting anti-Semites, and uses anti-Semitic rhetoric" Not to mention the paper's two most recent videos disparaging Hungary.
I wonder what would happen if, say, the German chancellor was mentioned on Hungarian public television as the murderer of Europe, since (thanks to) illegal immigrants who brought not only terrorism, but also implacable anti-Semitism, flock here. Here, our Jewish compatriot can walk down the street wearing a kippah, the same is a life-threatening act in Germany. So where does anti-Semitism rage?
The Hungarian ambassador in Berlin spoke out against the articles in question, which were false in every respect, on several occasions, but the words shouted into the wilderness remained.
