"MTV in-house union chief Balázs Navarro Nagy began a hunger strike outside the channel’s headquarters on Saturday afternoon to protest the lack of punishment for those guilty of blurring out the face of former chief judge Zoltán Lomnici in a recent news report.Nagy said the leaders of the state-run television station were the real culprits, adding that state news agency MTI and the Media Authority “are pointing their fingers at each other” while the real culprits remain in their posts.
Another union vice-president Aranka Szávuly joined Nagy on Saturday afternoon, while MTV production unit leader Sándor Patakfalvi joined them on Sunday.
Last week three MTV employees were reprimanded for their part in the controversy."
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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12.12.2011