{"id":35766,"date":"2013-05-23T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=35766"},"modified":"2013-05-23T11:25:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:25:35","slug":"euobserver-hungary-awards-top-journalism-prize-to-anti-roma-broadcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/05\/23\/euobserver-hungary-awards-top-journalism-prize-to-anti-roma-broadcaster\/","title":{"rendered":"EUobserver: Hungary awards top journalism prize to anti-Roma broadcaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS &#8211; An anti-Semitic and Roma-bashing TV broadcaster in Hungary has received the country\u2019s top journalism prize.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u2019s right-wing government awarded Ferenc Szaniszlo the Tancsics Prize for journalism on Friday (15 March).<\/p>\n<p>Szaniszlo works at the pro-government Echo TV channel.<\/p>\n<p>He was fined \u20ac500 by the state media regulator in 2011 for calling Roma people &#8220;apes.&#8221; He is also known for spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories during his TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary\u2019s minister of resources Zoltan Balog handed over the prize.<\/p>\n<p>Balog claims he was unaware of Szaniszlo\u2019s views, as 10 other Tancsics winners from other categories returned their prizes on Monday in protest, according to British daily The Independent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/social\/119458\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS &#8211; An anti-Semitic and Roma-bashing TV broadcaster in Hungary has received the country\u2019s top journalism prize. Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u2019s right-wing government awarded Ferenc Szaniszlo the Tancsics Prize for journalism on Friday (15 March). Szaniszlo works at the pro-government Echo TV channel. He was fined \u20ac500 by the state media regulator in 2011 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}