Message from @mattforney

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2019-10-13 20:48:46 UTC  

even the nationalist/right-wing Hungarian sources really aren't that good

2019-10-13 20:49:23 UTC  

I love Mariann Ory but Magyar Hirlap's English-language coverage is terrible

2019-10-13 20:49:42 UTC  

I know quite a bit because the guy in 3rd place is actually a friend of mine

2019-10-13 20:49:44 UTC  

and my Hungarian is regressing fast

2019-10-13 20:49:46 UTC  

really?

2019-10-13 20:49:49 UTC  

interesting

2019-10-13 20:50:09 UTC  

Yes, I know Puzser Robert in person

2019-10-13 20:50:47 UTC  

yep just checked, Magyar Hirlap purged their entire English-language section

2019-10-13 20:51:13 UTC  

funny, an investor approached me over a year ago about launching an English-language portal for V4 news

2019-10-13 20:51:23 UTC  

I turned him down because it would just be a money sink

2019-10-13 20:52:19 UTC  

There is no money. I don't read them because they are all fed with propaganda money from either side

2019-10-13 20:52:37 UTC  

You get all water and no meat on that soup

2019-10-13 20:52:43 UTC  

yeah that's what I told the investor

2019-10-13 20:53:04 UTC  

Visegrad Post ran out of money in 2017 and had to fire everyone

2019-10-13 20:53:14 UTC  

now they just run badly-translated opinion pieces

2019-10-13 20:53:20 UTC  

People don't read them to get informed, they read it to assure they are right, and that market is full on both sides

2019-10-13 20:53:58 UTC  

I tell people the same thing when they ask me if I'm going to report on the 2020 presidential election

2019-10-13 20:54:11 UTC  

there's no way for me to do it without a big paycheck and no one's going to give that to me

2019-10-13 20:54:15 UTC  

unless I sing their tune

2019-10-13 20:55:02 UTC  

I like Mariann, she's a friend of mine, but Magyar Hirlap is incompetent

2019-10-13 20:55:17 UTC  

I have another friend at PestiSracok, they have the same problems

2019-10-13 20:56:21 UTC  

Yeah, that's right. And 888 is intentionally insane

2019-10-13 20:56:47 UTC  

Good right wing or even unbiased journalists are hard to find

2019-10-13 20:56:50 UTC  

moreover any attempt at honest reporting, if it gets traction, will just make me a target

2019-10-13 20:57:10 UTC  

for example I'm not going to Poland this year for the independence celebrations

2019-10-13 20:57:29 UTC  

not after Jared Taylor was banned and the government is probably on high alert for foreign "extremists"

2019-10-13 20:57:45 UTC  

it's high-risk, zero-reward

2019-10-13 20:57:59 UTC  

I would rather sell weird novels about sex addiction

2019-10-13 20:58:00 UTC  

Yes, that is how it is, unfortunately

2019-10-13 20:58:18 UTC  

there's more money in running a book and merch publisher

2019-10-13 20:58:42 UTC  

I am prob going back to Budapest soon once the merch store is online to get some models for a store shoot

2019-10-13 20:59:04 UTC  

Melissa used to do that for a living, I'll ask her if she can hook me up with some photographers etc.

2019-10-13 20:59:40 UTC  

I do photography, but unfortunately not portraits or modeling

2019-10-13 21:00:04 UTC  

ah cool

2019-10-13 21:00:21 UTC  

this project's not coming to fruition for a few months

2019-10-13 21:00:39 UTC  

the first book hits the production line, then I talk to my friend at the merch store and he gets the shirts etc. up

2019-10-13 21:00:53 UTC  

he uses generic models but I want to go the extra mile because I have the money

2019-10-13 21:01:09 UTC  

Isn't it feasible to run it from there? Lack of models?

2019-10-13 21:01:29 UTC  

I looked into it, the scene in Georgia is a joke

2019-10-13 21:01:37 UTC  

everyone with a clue has moved to Russia or Europe

2019-10-13 21:01:54 UTC  

the economy here is in freefall after Putin's flight ban