„One of the puzzles of the moment is why virtually everything that the centre-right Hungarian government (currently in power) is doing receives an almost uniformly bad press in the Western media. If one thinks about this, it is inconceivable that any institution should be so overwhelmingly negative, have no redeeming features at all. Nothing in the world is a 100 percent good or a 100 percent bad, unless we want to present it that way. The question, then, is why so many communicators have closed their ears to this argument and continue to paint the Fidesz government as the very embodiment of bad governance.
There is, in reality, a complex of interlocking explanations and that complexity is generally disdained by journalists. This is not surprising, given that the ordering principle of the media is simplify and then exaggerate.”