It was no accident that the news swept through the opposition press: they were honestly surprised by it. They didn't expect this. It never occurred to them that things in the right-wing media have consequences.
The veteran of right-wing journalism, former KDNP father-in-law István Pálffy, was fired with immediate effect after he was found to have said in the first program of his comeback-debut that
"I wanted to give another example, and I will give it, that it is true that you definitely have to be patient with a disease like pedophiles. And at the same time, our children are there".
There is no reason, but after this there is no need: the presenter was terribly irresponsible
(although what he said could be defended not only from a metrical point of view, but also from a Christian point of view, to hate the sin, to love the sinner), it is just a side note that, thanks to this, Márki-Zay may have come out of a live recording for the first time in a long time less sane than he did went in.
Fortunately, there is a general consensus regarding the perception of pedophilia in our country, the overwhelming majority considers sexual abuse committed against children to be the darkest crime, and it is no coincidence that the visceral rejection, for example, of some LGBTQ groups being able to "sensitize" in schools and even kindergartens. However, it also comes with the fact that one cannot be ambiguous in a pedophile case,
and it would be more worthwhile to morph into empathy for the sufferings of mentally ill people who destroy the lives of children and are dangerous to the public only after the complete separation has taken place,
otherwise, one finds oneself up against the healthy immune system of society.
Now, in connection with the topic, the example of Sándor Révész, a HVG pen-turner, and "Mr. teacher" Havas, who does not have a doctorate, jumps out - an important difference between them and Pálffy is that the latter was dismissed. Right away.
And this leads us to another question that often arises: the functioning of the media
It was no accident that the news swept through the opposition press: they were honestly surprised by it. They didn't expect this. It never occurred to them that things in the right-wing media have consequences.
In other words, they didn't expect this. In such cases, the system freezes a bit, and then the explanations are fabricated: it would have been embarrassing, because politically one way or another, maybe a rubber bone, with this they divert attention from the yachts, those wartime inflation, and that dog's ears.
But the same thing happened when László Pesty - apparently not necessarily in his most inspired moment - spoke out against the "Lölő phenomenon". Whoah, amid what giggles they waited for the silk cord! Which didn't come. Pesty also gave an interview on the same topic - and wonder if he didn't. This is incomprehensible! A little thought was needed here to come up with the explanation: valve!
Cognitive dissonance is most unpleasant when it becomes permanent, from chronic to acute. However, it would be much easier for paid misunderstandingrs to ask the question:
does the right-wing media really work like we thought?
Maybe not (or not only) droids working on the right, but thinking people with their own opinions?
You can often see the honest astonishment on faces (the best examples of this were seen at the Journalists' Debates of the Transparent Journalism Foundation). Here, of course, came the cognitive dissonance again: after all, it is impossible for a person to be reasonable and sovereign at the same time, and right-wing, it does not fit into this logic...
The most typical conversation pattern that we have experienced with many colleagues looks something like this:
"Well, can you criticize this and that?" Won't they get fired for that?
"Of course." That's what I thought, I wrote it.
"Haha, good, then criticize this and that!"
- I will not.
"Well, isn't it!" You are afraid of being fired!
- No. I just don't want to describe it because I don't think so.
"Because you're afraid!"
This is where the disc tends to get stuck. That one does not want to write what is not one's opinion (but someone else's), so one is certainly kept on a leash: what is this, if not pure logic?
By definition, the right-wing media is not value-neutral
Like it or not, neither is the opposition, even if they come up with the age-old mantra that they are independent from whom and how, quite simply they are not, not even if they constantly describe those who hold a similar view as them.
The right-wing media isn't perfect either, oh, far from it. People work at right-wing organs, with human errors. Anyone who wants to can find out who and how many times said outrageous or ambiguous things, who abused their power, who abused whom and who made the wrong orbital - we are talking about people who work in workplaces, such things have happened since the beginning of the world.
Of course, anyone who is inclined to do so can quote and list these people (some are paid for this, of course), and demand that all of them disappear from the public eye, and that everyone else distance themselves from them by cutting each other's words. This would make as much sense as Momentum's sudden, meaningless national moralizing over the Turkish president's invitation on August 20: that is, if we would not welcome a representative of any country that has waged war against our country in the last thousand and one hundred years, then probably only a few our diplomacy could be limited to South American and African countries.
Regarding Pálffy, perhaps it is worth going back a little to the understandable part of Christ's teaching: we condemn the error, not the person.
Zoltán Veczán / Mandiner
Featured image: MH-archiv/Andrea Kövesdi
