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While many Western journalists without war zone experience were shocked by the situation at Keleti station and broke rules of journalistic non-intervention by buying supplies or providing electronic help (re-charging batteries, WiFi, lending phones), a Hungarian 'journalist' (a young woman to boot) had a different attitude:

Hungarian nationalist TV camera operator filmed kicking refugee children | World news | The Guardian

A camera operator for a Hungarian nationalist television channel closely linked to the country's far-right Jobbik party has been filmed kicking two refugee children and tripping over a male adult at the border hotspot of Rőszke on Tuesday.

Petra László of N1TV was filming a group of refugees running away from police officers, when a man carrying a child in his arms ran in front of her. László stuck her leg out in front of the man, causing him to fall on the child he was carrying. He turned back and remonstrated at László, who continued filming.

A 20-second video of the scene was posted on Twitter by Stephan Richter, a reporter for the German television channel RTL and soon went viral, leading to the creation of a Facebook group "The Petra László Wall of Shame".

Hungary's leading news website Index had also caught László kicking a young girl and boy.

N1TV said László had been dismissed due to "unacceptable behaviour". The channel's editor in chief Szabolcs Kisberk said in a statement posted on the station's website: "The camerawoman's employment has today been terminated with immediate effect, the case is now closed for us."



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Sep 8th, 2015 at 05:00:06 PM EST
"The camerawoman's employment has today been terminated with immediate effect, the case is now closed for us."

Get that camerawoman's resume to Fox News ... instant employment ... with a promotion.

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Sep 9th, 2015 at 09:39:35 AM EST
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by Katrin on Thu Sep 10th, 2015 at 06:21:26 AM EST
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"Sky News, who have a long history of hiring sociopaths masquerading as journalists and technicians, welcomed the young camerwoman to the 24-hour-news station, stating that she will "fit right in" at their headquarters in London."

Take that, Onion!

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Sep 10th, 2015 at 07:00:23 AM EST
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The birth of his cartoon was inevitable:



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Sep 10th, 2015 at 07:22:04 AM EST
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The father with child in hand tripped by a camerawoman reached Germany:

In case you missed that news, the man was identified as the former coach of a first-division football club in Syria, who was tortured by government troops for participating in a protest and fled later when IS entered his town.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sat Sep 12th, 2015 at 07:05:13 PM EST
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