Blog Language isn’t the problem. Your bias is the problem Jan 10, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács The first days of January offer a good time to take stock and consider some life improvements for the twelve months to come. Many are making New Year’s resolutions, including, it seems, the Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum.
Blog When the Washington Post, and its anti-Hungary echo chamber, refuses to run my response Nov 13, 2017 Echo chambers – the lack of different opinions on a certain issue – are threatening people’s right to information in the modern age. In today’s world of social media saturated with fake news and sensational, online media fighting for page views, the echo chamber effect is growing, and those media outlets that pride themselves on professional journalism have a special obligation to restore a little reason to the discourse.
Blog The irrational Orbanophobia of Anne Applebaum Nov 08, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács Under Soviet occupation, November 7 was a compulsory holiday in Hungary. Since the end of communism and the re-birth of a free Hungary, we remember the one hundred million victims of communism. In her recent piece in the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum uses November 7 as an opportunity to disparage democratic political parties and leaders – including Prime Minister Orbán – whom she dislikes, bizarrely comparing them to Bolsheviks.
Blog Hungary, says Washington Post, has unleashed a “xenophobic attack” on a “beacon of freedom” Apr 07, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács Professional media outlets who fail to ask critical questions or consult a balance of sources, who favor a hysterical narrative over rational discourse, are simply not professional
News in Brief Hungary's civilian border patrol force are not 'hunters' Oct 18, 2016 Border patrols provide additional protection on what has become one of Europe’s most sensitive frontiers in the struggle against illegal immigration and human trafficking
Blog Washington Post reporter lost in translation and bias Oct 11, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács Earlier this month, the Washington Post published an article on page one with the enticing, clickable title, “Hungary intends to stop migrants with ‘hunters’ near border wall,” by their Berlin-based correspondent, Anthony Faiola. Unfortunately, he got a few things wrong.