Europe's Mass Immigration Crisis -- Migrants, Refugees, or Invaders ?

 For the past few weeks, the stories of distraught men, women and children arriving at mainland Europe have been dominating newspaper front pages.Fleeing war-torn countries, the vast majority of the refugees have arrived in Hungary as they head further west in search of safety.However, harrowing pictures of refugees being held in squalid campgrounds, reminiscent to Nazi concentration camps, has sparked debate over the Hungarian government's treatment of refugees - and also over its treatment of the media.For journalists covering the crisis, this story has been a crash course on Prime Minister Viktor Orban's disdain of the news media.According to a leaked memo, Hungary's State TV was told by the government-appointed Media Authority not to broadcast images of children.An official reason given was to 'protect the children' but when the memo became public it was seen as a governmental effort to limit sympathy for the refugees. And as we all saw with the photo of three-year-old boy Aylan Kurdi, a single image really does have the power to change discourse, coverage and even policy. Discussing the media coverage of the refugee crisis are: Dan Nolan, a Budapest-based journalist; Tamas Bodoky, editor-in-chief of the online newspaper atlatszo.hu; Peter Bouckaert, the emergency director at Human Rights Watch; and Sue Clayton, a professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths University, London.Also on this episode of the Listening Post: Nigerian journalists and 'brown envelopes'.







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