The Media for the Family Foundation awarded the 2022 Media for the Family Award to Eszter Ambrus and József Nagy-Bozsoky (MTVA) for their television report The Meeting, and to the freelance journalist Bea Madocsai for her interview on Ráhel's vineyard broadcast on Kossuth radio, it was revealed at the award ceremony held in Budapest on Tuesday.
Eszter Ambrus and Zsolt Nagy-Bozsoky's report presents parents raising children with Down syndrome, and Bea Madocsai's talk gives the testimony of two mothers who have had an abortion.
Anikó Lévai, wife of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, said at the award ceremony: "family is our secret miracle drug, our magic wand." According to him, the nominees for the award show family as a value, and he would have given the award to all the nominees in his heart. He said that the award is also necessary because the "chorus" that, among others, questions the sanctity and essence of the family is growing stronger. At the same time, Anikó Lévai called the work of family organizations necessary, as well as the need for the government to support families.
"Unfortunately, there is something diabolical in the way the world celebrates the individual, the individual more and more since the Age of Enlightenment, that it elevates man next to God and, unfortunately, even above God, individual desires, individual needs, human relationships, the it elevates it to a place of community, mutual respect, mutual solidarity and renunciation for each other's sake," he emphasized.
According to Anikó Lévai, those who consider faith, the future, love and human relationships to be important to their children should tell them a lot and carefully about the importance of the family and, above all, set a good example for them. "The stories covered by this year's winners are all about these kinds of topics," he said, noting that the nominees' work had appeared in very different publications.
In addition to Hungarian authors, foreign journalists were also awarded. Regarding this, the state secretary responsible for national policy, János Árpád Potápi, recalled: the state secretariat has been supporting the award since 2016, and its importance has only increased this year.
Referring to the war in Ukraine, he said that during a war crisis, we can forget the importance of togetherness even less. He said: while the global economic processes are testing all families and "all of us are fearfully looking at our countrymen from Subcarpathia" and towards the Hungarian families there, the Media for the Family Award represents a value that unites the Hungarianness of the Carpathian Basin. He said that national unity is not a ribbon on the hat of our nation, but the main thing, which if we lose, everything goes with it.
Among the foreign candidates, the jury considered Andrea Szomolai's article The sanctity of childhood is important even in war, published on the Ma7 portal in the Highlands, to be the best.
Based on the votes, the audience award in Hungary was also won by Bea Madocsai's report, while among foreigners, Ágnes Homolya-Horváth's article "Star-eyed triplets" published in the columns of the Magyar Szó daily newspaper in Vojvodina was voted the most.
The full article of Magyar Hírlap can be read here.
Pictured: Media for the family award winners (mediaacsaladert.hu)
