Several US journalists were denied access to the CPAC Hungary!

The two-day CPAC Hungary (Conservative Political Action Conference Hungary), a conservative gathering (which is also referred to as the Hungarian mini edition of the annual super-conference of the American right) in Budapest, started on Thursday morning. The Centre for Fundamental Rights, the Hungarian organiser banned virtually all media outlets from the event that were not part of the Hungarian public media or KESMA (Central European Press and Media Foundation).

Who was allowed to enter?

Viktor Orbán arrives at the conference with his political director Balázs Orbán and Matt Schlapp, President of the American Conservative Union. Source: Facebook/Alapjogokért Központ

MTI, public media, Hír TV and other KESMA journalists were welcomed with open arms. This was quite obvious since

the CEO of the Centre for Fundamental Rights is the leader of KESMA as well.

However, many other press outlets were denied access to the conference. This was particularly the case for American journalists who came here just for the event and were not yet familiar with the Hungarian media environment.

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Vice reports that all US journalists outside the Bálna Cultural Centre were denied entry on Thursday morning despite months of attempts to obtain press credentials for the conference.

And who was denied access?

In addition to Vice, journalists from Rolling Stone, Vox and the New Yorker were also turned away. RTL Híradó talked to Jonathan Krohn, a journalist for Rolling Stone, who said that he had not been allowed in despite having been promised to do so by the US organiser of the event, the American Conservative Union which is also the organiser of the ‘real’ CPAC.

Krohn explained that they had been forced to leave the area around the gate by two large security guards, and added that everyone was allowed into CPAC events in the US,

so this may have to do with the way the Orbán regime works.

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According to Telex, journalists from Reuters, the Guardian and the Associated Press, in addition to those mentioned above, tried in vain to gain press access and enter the event. When it comes to the Western press, only an AFP (Agence France-Presse) photographer was able to gain access.

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The only consolation, as Telex put it, was that the Centre for Fundamental Rights was webcasting the conference, so even those who could not attend were able to follow the events.

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Source: Telex, hvg.hu, Vice, RTL Híradó

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3 Comments

TM says:

23/05/2022 at 13:41

Everyone of the media co mention are joke along with the NYT and WaPo and should tell you everything you want to know. These are the same people ignored the biggest story of the last 20 years until almost 2 years after the election. A hard drive of hunter Biden has hours and hours of video and emails confirmed by witnesses. High levels of the corrupt US goverment insisting it was Russian disinformation. The same game they they tried on trump for 4 years. Imajine the president , his son and brother getting millions of dollars from foreign governments – much while he was VP and senator and hunter paying most of the bills and it’s all there in black and white- it all on line and you have never mentioned it with much happening in your back yard known as UKraine – you would think you would have some interest. these people insisted how corrupt UKraine was and its was Biden’s job to deal with it. I watched as the US and the EU worked to overthrough the goverment over 8 years ago- they responsible for everything that is happing today and all the media you mention would like nothing more than destroying the Hungarian goverment. A work closely with Soros and his many NGOs. Wake the guck up. Ukraine was a small fish when you have whale like China paying millions to this family and it’s all documented – including bank accounts and records. You would think even DHN would be interested or even report on it as it’s the biggest danger to the Eastern Europe. Facebook and Twitter also banned the story just like they banned there was a virus leaked from the Wuhan lab that we now know was true. I don’t remember any mention of the daily Covid histaria from DNH. These same media you mentio were thrilled when the president was banned from social media over lies like being impeached over a phone call to Ukraine where he asked about corruption involving Biden that turns out much worse than anyone dreamed. The war would not have happened If trump remained president.
90 % of media did everything they could to destroy Trump and many you mention were major players. Read Revolvernews.com with CIA,EU and other counties agency’s work with Twitter to push for control.
MT says:

23/05/2022 at 16:12

@TM, start taking your meds again. You need them.
mariavontheresa says:

24/05/2022 at 20:44

Western leftist media already wrote the story, ready for publishing without attending the conference. This is the media that published the Russian collusion mess without verifying it and denied validity of the Hunter Biden lap top. Good fairy tales can be found in story books no more is needed.