HEADLINES REVEAL SILLY, SINISTER SIDES OF HUNGARIAN-ARMENIA “WAR”
Politics.hu
Sept 3 2012
Hungary
With the Hungarian government’s release yesterday of a diplomatic
protest to Azerbaijan, the sudden and intense war of words between
Budapest and Armenia over the “Ramil Safarov case” is likely to quickly
cool off, and there is probably not much more that can be said about
the bizarre standoff that you can’t find in the 300+ comments posted
here. But two webpage “screengrabs” that we took on Friday evening
are worth sharing.
The first (above) is from the article on leading English-language
Armenian portal hetq.am announcing Yerevan’s severing of ties with
Budapest – which they mistakenly identify as the Romanian capital of
Bucharest. (The headline has since been corrected, but the URL for the
story still shows up the flub.) What can you say about a vicious fight
between two countries where even the people supposedly in the know have
a hard time IDing the capital of the enemy state? Pretty silly, no?
At the same time we saw this, something much less silly was taking
place on the homepage of key government-friendly Hungarian daily Magyar
Nemzet, where the editors apparently couldn’t figure out how to spin
the deeply embarrassing story and instead decided to utterly bury it,
as if this would prevent news of the row – which was at the same time
a top item on all the other big portals in Hungary, as well as the
BBC’s website – from making the rounds in Hungary. Though to be fair
to the editors/censors at mno.hu, at least they correctly identified
the capital of Ormenyorszag as Jerevan.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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