After the tragic images spread on the drowned 3-year old Syrian refugee online just about a week ago, another social media outcry is calling for the humane treatment of these refugees with the "kicking and tripping" incident that recently grabbed headlines.
In an article on the belfasttelegraph.co.uk, Petra Laszlo, the Hungarian camerawoman who worked for the news station N1TV, was immediately removed from her duties after videos of her involvement in the said incident went viral. Szabolcs Kisberk, the channel's editor, said of Laszlo's employment as "terminated with immediate effect". As seen on the station's official Facebook page, the full transcript reads (translated to English):
One of N1TV colleagues acted unacceptably close to Röszke registration camp today. Her labour relation has been terminated without notice. The case is considered as closed as far as we're concerned.
Szabolcs kisberk
Editor in Chief
Seemingly endless frustrated remarks flooded Laszlo, as her actions in the video proved otherwise. The collection point was flocked with police officers who did not display the kind of ineptitude Petra Laszlo exhibited, according to the same article.
However, a spiked-online.com report gave a different side to Ms. Laszlo's actions, citing she was only acting on the "journalism of attachment". Instead of acting as just being part of "bystander journalism", she decides to "attach" herself (and her values) on the far-right side of the Jobbik party, who are known to mistrust immigrants.
The "journalism of attachment" ideology is described as a self-conscious as well as post-objective journalistic form. This first emerged in the 1900s, around the time of the Bosnia War, where journalists make themselves a willing part of those conflicts they came across, as mentioned in the same article.
Nevertheless, her actions were still considered unforgivable; it wasn't a lovely day out for a walk.
