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Introduction

NEPSZABADSAG is the oldest still existing newspaper in Hungary. It was first edited during the Second World War, in 1942. It was the only Hungarian party's the MSZMP's central newspaper. It represented the party's opinion, it consisted of only such news what the MSZMP wanted to put forward. It mainly wrote about The Eastern block, and only mentioned Western countries in connection of disaster or some failure. The news was mainly faked to be in favour of the party. Even the sport news was changed from reality. It did not have an opposition paper.

The day

This essay presents one day in the life of Hungary through NEPSZABADSAG. The day is the 27, February, 1974, it was 32. volume, 48. issue of NEPSZABADSAG. This was in the middle of the week, it was Wednesday. This day's issue consisted of 12 pages. Out of these 12 pages, 6 dealt with news generally, with foreign news as well as with home news. On the sevens page there appears a cultural session, containing book-reviews and a folktale. The whole of the 8. page shows the day's lucky car winners. The cars to serve as a present are all Dacias, Zaporozsec, Polski, Zsiguli, Moszkvics, Trabant. On the 9. page takes place the cultural news. On the 10. the weather forecast and agricultural matters. Then follows the advertisements; goods for sale, goods to buy, houses to rent, and most of all job advertisements. And the last page is for the sport news. There are few illustrations and pictures in these copy, but I assume it was like these in those days. A small black and white picture of Serif Belkaszem appears however on the front page, and some small illustrations of some buildings of an engineer called Mihail Lesznyikov,- who was the world's greatest water builder-, and some other illustration of some machine on sale. And of course there is an illustrated map of the weather forecast.

News in the issue.

There are two main news on the front page. Both of them are foreign. The main cover story is that today met, for the first time, the Soviet-American commercial and agricultural consultation in Washington. Patolcsev, the Foreign Trade Minister met President Nixon. A delegation of 22 Soviet members dined with Frederich Dent who represented the idea that the Soviet-American relationship works absolutely well. And he wants to continue and improve this connection with them. Another lead article is about the troops in Saigon whose trial started today. In South- Vietnam today(27, February) the two opposition started a 90 minute long discussion, on which they agreed that by the fourth of march they will let altogether 1338 troops free. This agreement should have ended on the eighths of February but Saigon made all sort of excuses to delay the action. Among the troops are civil people as well as military. On the front page there appears to be some news, in length smaller, but not in importance. As for example the two paragraph long and only about 16 sentences short sketch on the right hand column of the sheet.

" Rebels against the army, in carnage fight, on the Philippines ". Says the title of the report. The battles had been going on since 1972 between the Muslims and the Philippines government on Joel-Island. The news reporting said that Joel-Island's 5 or 6 major towns which population reaches up to 100000 was destroyed and completely ruined by fire. According to the military news reporters Joel, which lies about 1000 kilometres south from Manila, in the last two days had more than 400 citizen lost their lives. These were the front page stories of Wednesday’s issue. None of them was home news. The headlines of 27, February NEPSZABADSAG are: 1) Up to date technique and democratism in the agricultural co-operative. ( page 3 )
2) American situation- the twice opened meeting. ( page 4 ) 3) Tattoo, the 20 years old city ( page 4-5 ) 4) On an expedition in Siberia. ( page 6 ) 5) The Saran experiment ( page 6 ) Vehicle winner's list. ( page 8 )

News in the country.

Important events in the life of the country on the 27, February. On page 3 appears the correspondent on the Up to date technique and democratism in agricultural co-operative. The agricultural co-operative had been a great success. It gives the whole agricultural income's 70 percent. All the home news seems to be of agricultural interest. It might be because the coming march, and the forth- coming spring. For instance; agricultural equipments are under experiment in Godollo. On the meeting which was held on Tuesday Dimenyi Imre was present who is the minister of agriculture and food. Rab Gyorgy who had been the director of the institute for decades, was presented with the Great Workers price. Four other member of the institute was awarded with The Great Worker Of The Agriculture price.

Also under the work, leisure, health subhead there is a survey about the use of the small, private gardens. On the 9. page there is an article about Hungarian game export. The Hungarian game is widely wanted across Europe. 160 thousand rabbits, 50 thousand pheasant, 25 thousand birds had been exported. The hunting season just finished and about its result Gabber Jozsef said that our export had grown ten times in the last ten years. Most of the shot game, exactly 95 percent was sold abroad. It brought 15 million dollars to our country. The main economical news of the country is about the Allami Fejlesztesi bank. The Allami Fejlesztesi Bank is the main source and helper of the Hungarian economy. The bank started to operate in 1972, its president is Peter Havas. The education column is about strict rules in schools. It deals with the question whether pupils should wear some sort of uniform like apron above their own cloth, and whether the use of make- up would be aloud. There is only one person mentioned in the obituary. He was a devoted member of the Hungarian party the MSZMP.

News values.

Recency
Definition
The more recent the news is the more wanted, interesting it is. Newspapers always try to be the first in catching on the newest story. To be of something new, its in its name. Normally the day is the basic cycle of a news.

Identification
On Tuesday the KGST started its 66. meeting in Moszkva. Its main project was the socialist integration. The delegation discussed the KGST countries work together and their process to help each other and Yugoslavia. Our country was represented by Gyorgy Lazier.
( Front page news. N. A. )

Negativity
Definition

Negativity is the news value that is presented and read more quickly and widely. Journalists are aware of that so they are especially trained to seek for and write negative stories. These are articles which involve death, injury, damage, conflict between people political parties or nations . It has been always popular to read about catastrophes.

Identification
The rebellion on the Philippines ended with more than 400 people, civil as well as soldiers death and adding to the human loss there was also loss in property, as five- six big cities were burnt down and ruined. ( front page N. A. )

And there was another rebellion but it took place in Africa, in Ethiopia. The rebels took over the major strategically places in Aszmara, and even the airport. From Addisz Abeda there was not a straight forward answer for the reasons of the rebellion and about the rebels. ( page 2, MTI )

For those who enjoy football, the short article on the back page where the Sport section took place, there is a news which they would consider negative. On the football match Bp. Honved, Vasas, three of the players were sent of the pitch and were refused to play in the next 5 games.
In Kecel the 34 years old Laszlo Romsics in a toxicated state seriously injured, with his car the 12 years old Margit Vancsik school student. Than he left without even stopping, to give aid. ( page 8 AN )
There happened another serious accident where the driver was under the influence of alcohol. ( Same column as above. )

Personalisation

Definition
Something which can be pictured in personal terms is more newsworthy than a concept, a process, the generalised or the mass. Striving for personalisation has brought journalists to grief for instance in the Washington Post's Janet Cooke affair. Cooke's feature writing about an eight-years- old drug addict won a 1981 Pulitzer Prize which was withdrawn when it was found the boy did not exist

Identification.
Dimitrov's escape. One of the Reichstag-case's victim recalling. "It has been for forty years today, in the 27, February, 1934....... .". In Hitlers court Van der Luppet was condemn to death, but Dimitrov and his two Bulgarian communist fellow was let off, because of the international reaction. But Dimitrov was kept in prison. "Dimitrov will stay here!"- said Gobbels to Dimitrove's elderly mother. Sentimental expression-"elderly mother" makes the reader feel sorry about Dimitrov. It is a personalisation. It creates a more dramatic feeling. Dimitrov and the others asked, through their relatives, for Soviet citizenship from the Soviet embassy in Berlin. Within 48 hours the Soviet government asked Berlin to let its citizens free. The three prisoner Dimitrov, Popov and Tanev received a paper from the Gestapo, saying that they are not wanted citizens in Germany. They were put on an aeroplane and were sent to the Soviet Union. In Moszkva a huge crowd of people gathered to celebrate them. Inspite of the fact that their destination had been kept a secret and it was only a guess that they might fly to the Soviet Union. ( page 2 Karoly Nagy )

Superlativeness
Definition

The biggest, the best, the highest and other superlatives cause attraction. It urges the reader to want to achieve even more. For example The Guinness Books Of Records is a widely red book, Inspite of the fact that it has nothing else in it but records, in other words, superlatives.

Identification
In Siberia the world biggest water engine was under construction. ( page 6 Peter Serene )

Conclusion

The 32. volume, 48. issue of the NEPSZABADSAG which was the 27, February, 1974 Wednesday was writing about foreign politics mainly. It had few news in connection of Hungary. These few was generally about agriculture. The country was waiting and was all ready for spring. There is one article which haven’t been mentioned yet and it is very much in connection with my birthday. The article is about my birthplace Tattoo. The city was celebrating its 20. birthday on the very same day when I was born.