Uzemi baleset - tortenetek a Kadar-korszak . Industrial Accident - Publicity Stories in the Kadar Era
Duration: 01:18:00 The film attempts to show the ambiguous wayin which the mass-media in the Kádár period was managed. It was a regime trying to control all the publicity strings and while expecting to bask on a reputation of being understanding, democratic and above all loved. The film seeks journa...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Hungarian |
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Sárközy, Réka
2003
Hungary |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:c6c7ce3d-a89d-4062-abe1-931a8f391682 |
| Summary: | Duration: 01:18:00
The film attempts to show the ambiguous wayin which the mass-media in the Kádár period was managed. It was a regime trying to control all the publicity strings and while expecting to bask on a reputation of being understanding, democratic and above all loved. The film seeks journalists, editors and assistant editors who learnt during the long Kádár period how to walk the communications' tightrope, knowing just what readers and authorities expected of their paper. It contains a string of publicity stories, told by Irén Németi, once editor-in-chief of the women’s weekly Nők Lapja, Vilmos Faragó, formerly deputy editor of the literary weekly Élet és Irodalom, Gábor Paizs, who edited the Budapest evening paper Esti Hírlap, and Ernő Lakatos, once vice-president of the Information Office. It’s spiced with archive quotations from functionaries and press controllers of the Kádár period. The film deals with three case studies in publicity policy, told through documents and newspapers of the time. These are a fatal accident suffered by Deputy Minister Péter Vályi at the Diósgyőr Ironworks, the burial of the exiled Mátyás Rákosi in Budapest, and the Kiev crash of a Hungarian airliner. Reported correctly and factually, they would never have given rise to the astonishing rumours that came to surround them. |
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| Published: | 2003 |