15. 10. 2018
The regulatory Council for Radio and TV Broadcasting, which is controlled by Czech Parliament, has strongly censured Petr Fischer, the highly respected editor-in-chief of Radio Vltava, a highbrow outlet of the publicly funded Czech Radio, for broadcasting a 35-second excerpt from The Line of Beauty, A Man Booker prize-winning novel by British author Alan Hollinghurst, which was condemned as "pornographic". Liberal critics fear that the editor-in-chief of Radio Vltava will now be forced out, in a move reminiscent of the ongoing media clampdown in Hungary. Member of the Council for Radio and TV Broadcasting Tomáš Kňourek dismissed Hollinghurst as “a homosexual activist dressed as a writer” whose “obscenities indicate the level of social life in Great Britain, a country that is voluntarily flooded with the most repulsive form of Islam”.
Further reading on the Hollinghurst scandal HERE
Source in Czech HERE
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