- Few have delved as deeply into the media's inner workings as I have. Few can speak about this topic with such competence. I dedicated myself to very intensive communication with the media (and politicians) as an anti-corruption activist. What I discovered was totally shocking, which surprised even me.
- On the one hand, everything that critics of alternative media criticize is true, on the other hand, one should not be uncritical of mainstream media either.
- The media works radically differently than mainstream media readers imagine. It works worse than a bad dream. Behind-the-scenes media games are without a shred of ethics.
- I tend to express myself very expressively about journalists. I often don't hesitate to mention the phrase "scum of the nation". To the average ignorant and uninformed person, this may seem like too harsh a vocabulary, but I have very rational arguments for it, as I see into the behind-the-scenes games.
- In this article, I will briefly summarize what I have mentioned in all other articles and podcasts.
- It must be said openly that people are extremely easy to manipulate, whether by alternative or mainstream media. Critical analytical thinking and fact-checking are completely alien to 95% of people.
- I see the biggest problem with the media as the fact that they have double standards for politicians. Or more precisely, double standards. Journalists behave like politicians. They do PR marketing campaigns for some political parties in their favor, and massive anti-campaigns for other unpopular political parties. If a popular and an unpopular politician have the same affair, the reaction of journalists is dramatically different.
- A significant portion of people have too much trust in the media. And that's a mistake. Journalists pretend to be above it all, commenting on politicians impartially and independently, and naive readers or followers believe them. But the reality is completely different. A journalist should correctly be an arbiter between political parties, similar to a referee in football. That's how most people perceive them. Football teams are political parties, and journalists are referees. In reality, however, it's completely different. It works just as absurdly as if a referee in a football match joined one team himself and even committed fouls.
- The fact that political parties fight among themselves is fine. That's normal. What is not okay is that journalists themselves are directly involved in political struggles. Unfortunately, people are easily manipulated and often do not understand this and believe in the objectivity and impartiality of journalists. Sometimes journalists behave more politically than politicians. Often, even politicians do not allow themselves such dirty tricks as the media, for example, spreading disinformation and the like.
- It is very dangerous that the control mechanisms for journalists in Slovakia are too weak. While politics is controlled by the media, the opposition, and the voter, no control mechanisms apply to the media.
Media manipulation techniques for an unpopular "enemy" politician or political party (ranked by severity of journalistic failure, from least to most severe):
- concealing, "censoring" all the successes of the politician in question
- unleashing a huge hysteria or hell around small affairs ( example: Andrej Danko's traffic light was certainly not worth the media writing about nothing else for a whole month. If something similar happened to a politician from the PS party, it would end with complete censorship by the media. HIV positivity in the Tomáš Hellebrandt affair was completely censored, even though the media knew about it. Interesting double standards of the media)
- hyperbolization, exaggeration of the politician's failures
- spreading open hoaxes ( example: spreading hysteria about a mafia state or the demise of democracy in the amendment to the Criminal Code, although the truth is that the amendment has come closer to the standard of Western European countries and nothing terrible has happened. The craziest hoaxes are also spread by journalists with an ecological focus)
Media manipulation techniques for a popular "friendly" politician or political party:
- complete censorship and information boycott of any affairs of a popular politician ( example : this went to the extreme with former minister Ján Budaj, who had an affair as big as the Gorilla case, yet journalists decided on complete censorship. Example no. 2: complete concealment and censorship of the scandal of MP Hellebrandt being HIV positive, even though it was in the public interest)
- when the affair breaks out and cannot be kept secret, the media look for all possible arguments to minimize the affair as much as possible and journalists play the role of lawyers for the law firm of the politician in question ( Example: it reached a crazy extreme in the case of corruption subsidies for the Šimečka family, when self-proclaimed anti-corruption investigative journalists openly defended corruption)
- In the case of the corruption subsidy scandals of Michal Šimečka and his family, it even went to such an extreme that the media very aggressively defended Šimečka's corruption and even made him a martyr who was being wronged.
Myth: Corrupt and anti-corruption political parties
People are easily manipulated. Journalists create the illusion and the appearance that there are corrupt and anti-corruption political parties. Many voters have been deceived by media propaganda into thinking, "I will not vote for a corrupt political party that has had many political affairs, but instead I will vote for an anti-corruption party."But what is the truth?
Often, it can be the exact opposite. People don't realize how many disgusting political corruption affairs and other scandals the media could have allegedly concealed from the anti-corruption party. Ministers from the OĽANO party stole no less than the Smer party members; they had a huge number of corruption affairs, but the media decided to censor them.
As a person who sees behind the scenes of media and political games that ordinary people have never even dreamed of, I can responsibly declare that if the PS party came to power, they would steal perhaps 5 times as much as the Smeráci, because the media would decide to censor all corruption affairs. And appetite grows with eating. If a politician realizes that all corruption affairs will pass without media attention, or that the media will even defend their corruption, they will have the courage to steal more and more.
The Myth Called Investigative Journalism
- People are easily manipulated. Many people believe in the dualism of media games, that on one side there are bad politicians and on the other side there are good investigative journalists who guard public finances to prevent theft. I also thought so until, as an anti-corruption activist, I encountered the harsh reality when journalists decided on complete censorship of huge corruption scandals because they were not committed by "the right" political party. Together with other volunteers, we created an anti-corruption team and exchanged a lot of information. I published anti-corruption findings on social networks, and other people sent me a lot of information. I sent about 100 pages of materials, several dozen emails to about 120 journalists, with strong evidence of corruption and other scandals, but the reaction of journalists was practically zero.
- I had high expectations for the media, which are considered by the public to be the flagships of investigative journalism, such as Aktuality.sk or Denník N. Even in these newsrooms, it ended with simple censorship.
- The frequent fluctuation of employees in the Aktuality.sk newsroom probably also indicates something, that they are not satisfied. The editor-in-chief does not allow them to write freely.
- There is no investigative journalism. Investigative journalism has degenerated into a tool of political struggle. However, exceptions sometimes exist, for example, there are only sporadic, very inconspicuous articles around which there is not much media attention.
- Journalists should not censor 100 corruption and other scandals of one politician while publishing everything about another, even a small number of minor scandals.
Journalists are the moral bottom. Evidence.
When I sent emails to about 120 journalists about a corruption scandal as big as the Gorilla case, and not a single journalist wrote an article about it, it really speaks volumes about the moral credit of journalists as a whole, when not a single one of them was found who would publish it. And it is for this reason that I consider journalists to be the moral bottom of the whole society. Certainly, at least in some newsrooms, if a journalist really wanted to, the editor-in-chief would be able to tolerate them, at least with great difficulty, for engaging in serious investigative journalism. I would also expect at least half of the journalists to openly stand up against their employer, against their editor-in-chief, and if they are not allowed to address corruption and other madness at the Ministry of the Environment, they would hand in their resignation en masse.Zero social responsibility of journalists and editors-in-chief
Journalists have a similarly strong influence as politicians. Therefore, they should handle this power with the utmost responsibility. However, I have numerous pieces of evidence that this is not the case and that journalists and the media grossly abuse their power and behave extremely irresponsibly.After the scandal breaks, a dangerous politician may resign under media pressure. Conversely, by censoring all scandals, the media can keep an extremely dangerous politician in power. For example, Ján Budaj and his people caused unimaginable damage to nature and the economy, yet the media decided to keep him in power. It would have been enough if the media had published only 5% of Budaj's scandals, and within a week the pressure would have been so great that he would have had to resign. Budaj was in power for too long and managed to cause unimaginable social damage. They even portrayed Budaj as a positive hero who supposedly cared about protecting nature.
Journalists do not ask critical questions to a popular politician.
Another problem is that journalists never ask their favorite politician critical questions, whether in interviews, shows, or at press conferences. This is a double standard because they do not hesitate to ask an unpopular politician really tough, personal questions.When Ján Budaj was devastating the ministry and destroying national parks with an overpopulation of bark beetles, none of the journalists at the press conference or in the interview asked a critical question.
Similarly, when the corruption scandals of Michal Šimečka and his family came to light, not a single journalist thought to ask whether all the subsidies his family received were effectively used and whether they were not just stolen for salaries.
And now compare that with the multiple press conferences of the ministers from the Smer party, how many critical questions were asked there.
On the one hand, mainstream media reproach alternative media for not asking politicians critical questions, while they themselves do the same.
Too much support for ecoterrorist ideology from the media
What is ecoterrorism?
It is very important to define this term so that we know what we are talking about.Eco-terrorism is an ideology that, under the guise of a false ecological ideology, will do more harm than good. Eco-terrorism is a confused, contradictory ideology that often fails to distinguish between environmental damage and ecology, damage to nature and nature conservation, and ecology and anti-ecology. In Germany, eco-terrorists shut down nuclear power plants, while coal-fired power plants are running at 200% because they have to replace them. In Slovakia, this is going to even more serious and radical extremes, where eco-terrorists consider the devastation of national parks by an overpopulation of bark beetles to be the only correct form of nature conservation. I consider it very dangerous that this extremist ideology has enormous support in the media, based on the dissemination of the most insane hoaxes by eco-terrorists. It has come to such an extreme that we have more beautiful nature in commercial forests than in national parks.
As a person who has a strong positive relationship with nature and is a true conservationist, it keeps me awake at night, and my heart breaks with sorrow when journalists give space to extremists and promote hoaxes about harming nature as nature conservation.
A lie repeated a hundred times becomes the truth. People will believe even the most absurd hoaxes if the media repeats them often enough and for long enough.
Eco-terrorists also scare people with climate change and hyperbolize this problem. They express themselves in a context as if the end of the world was to happen tomorrow due to climate change. They preach the ideology of destroying the economy in favor of fighting climate change. Some journalists and some politicians from the PS party strongly adhere to this psychopathic ideology.
My opinion is that no green deals will save our planet, they will not help the planet at all and will only destroy agriculture and the economy. The only thing that will save our planet is if Europe starts distributing condoms and contraception in developing countries.
Eco-terrorist journalists as a problem
The most sophisticated and most dangerous hoaxes in the media are in the field of ecology.The vast majority of journalists who specialize in the topic of ecology are very radicalized extremist ecoterrorists. They are the very last scum of the nation, the most desperate, complex-ridden wretches.
At first, I tried to patiently and respectfully explain to journalists not to spread hoaxes by crazy extremists, who make up only one percent of experts. Of course, that didn't help, so I started communicating with editors-in-chief, quoting expert opinions that questioned their hoaxes. Again, it didn't help.
The social responsibility of editors-in-chief is zero, and they have always refused to address it . It is as absurd as if an editor-in-chief tolerated and gave full freedom to a journalist who promotes the flat earth theory in articles. Many hoaxes by eco-fascist journalists are as absurd as the flat earth theory. However, editors-in-chief are the hyena-like moral waste of the nation, who don't care about anything. What does it matter that their eco-terrorist journalist promotes the ideology of destroying forests and forest ecosystems in national parks?
It is also very dangerous that journalists present one percent of experts as if they represented the entire expert community in the field of ecology and nature conservation. They refuse to publish the attitudes and opinions of the majority of experts.
A very dangerous eco-terrorist who spreads absurd hoaxes is Martina Töröková, a reporter at TV Markíza. Other media hoax eco-terrorists include Jana Kubisová from Aktuality.sk, Soňa Mäkká and Tomáš Grečko from Denník N, Andrej Barát from Denník Pravda, Katarína Kozinková from Denník SME, and several others.
Aktuality.sk. When the "anti-corruption" and "investigative" newspaper allows itself to be bribed by a corrupt criminal group
The editor-in-chief of Aktuality.sk, Peter Bárdy, "confessed" to taking a bribe from the BROZ corruption group. The biggest scandal in the history of Slovak media .I wrote a detailed article about it and I will not come back to it, I will not repeat it. I will just add something.
If all other media had published this affair, then tomorrow the self-proclaimed flagship of investigative journalism and the most read online daily, Aktuality.sk, would have gone bankrupt because no one would read them.
Aktuality.sk preaches water and drinks wine. They demand the absence of corruption and decency from politicians, while they themselves allow themselves to be bribed by a corrupt group. It is as absurd as when a thief shouts "catch the thief", or when a corrupt person criticizes a corrupt person.
Aktuality.sk works in such a way that the journalists in the newsroom have regular work meetings, so the entire newsroom must have known that a propaganda video was being filmed for a corrupt group. What a total moral low the entire newsroom must be, knowing about it, and yet there was no mass revolt, no mass resignations. And that is why I call journalists by the very harsh term "scum of the nation." Even unfortunate politicians adhere more to basic ethical rules and honesty than journalists.
Readers place enormous trust in the Aktuality.sk editorial team. However, they do not realize that editor-in-chief Peter Bárdy despises his own readers, considers his own readers to be easily manipulated shit who will believe even the most recent crap. I apologize for the disgusting expressive vulgar vocabulary, but the situation is so extreme that it cannot be commented on with nicer words.
Crazy hoaxes of former minister Ján Budaj vs. zero social responsibility of journalists and media
Many times I have asked about 120 journalists via email not to spread Ján Budaj's frequent crazy hoaxes. Press releases or Budaj's statements at press conferences almost always contained hoaxes such as "the bear is a vegetarian" or "the earth is flat".Such information should never be freely released to the media without being challenged by a serious expert who will point out the hoaxes.
However, journalists have zero social responsibility, journalists are at the moral bottom and have never been told.
Budaj surrounded himself with the most despicable and desperate extremist scum, who caused unimaginable damage, but the media was completely indifferent to the devastation of nature.
When journalists are such a moral low that they are shamed by far-right politicians
The far right, such as Rudolf Huliak, has disgraced all investigative journalists because they have been pointing out corruption and left-wing extremism, ecoterrorism in nature protection. On the contrary, investigative newspapers not only consistently censored this corruption but even proactively supported it.It is also outrageous that the OĽANO party won the elections based on anti-corruption rhetoric, and in some areas, they had far greater corruption scandals than the Smer party.
It is outrageous and shameful that investigative journalists and reporters are such a moral low that their work had to be substituted by the far right.
Villainous journalists are driving decent and capable people out of politics.
A decent, capable, and intelligent expert will certainly not want to join the PS party, which is promoted by the media but is full of fools who believe that tomorrow will be the end of the world due to climate change. However, an expert will not join a political party that they know the media hates, because no matter what they do, the media will always hate their work and they will become a target. Then we can wonder why there is a lack of experts, decent, and morally-based people in politics. Scoundrel journalists are causing enormous social damage with immeasurable social consequences.Media as an effective tool of manipulation to distract attention from essential things
The media knows very well how to distract attention from essential things. At the same time, they are not willing to pay attention to really important information or only pay little attention. Unfortunately, people are very easily manipulated and are easily caught in these media games.Examples:
- For example, Andrea Danko's traffic light certainly wasn't worth such a big media attention that for one month the media wouldn't write about anything else. That's what happens when the media is reduced to just a tabloid.
- Fico's completely insignificant considerations about a possible change in the electoral system also triggered a huge media hysteria. It went viral, the media stooped to primitive tabloid journalism, but these words of Fico were really not worth any media attention at all. Demagogically extracted information from the context, that there are some harsh conflicts between Fico and Pellegrini.
Hidden advertising in the media in favor of corrupt groups
What is hidden advertising?These are propaganda articles that pretend to be independent and objective, but in reality, they are commissioned articles in favor of a corrupt group.
"Environmental" journalists Jana Kubisová (Aktuality.sk) and Soňa Mäkká (Denník N) very aggressively supported corrupt groups in the field of nature protection and mocked anti-corruption activists in their articles. However, they didn't have to do it for free. A very insidious thing is various hidden advertisements, where the editorial office receives a reward without the readers transparently knowing about it. This doesn't have to work only in the field of nature protection. Ultimately, even the propaganda video that the BROZ association ordered for Aktuality.sk was deliberately made in such a way that 99% of people did not notice that at the very end of the video, it flashed for half a second that the entire video was produced on behalf of the corrupt BROZ group.
And that's not even mentioning when a journalist, as a natural person, receives a bribe from corrupt groups.
What we can prove is that the semi-hidden advertising was ordered by corrupt groups from the daily Pravda, as part of the lobbying marketing political campaign "Let's Free the National Parks". However, 99% of readers did not understand that it was paid political lobbying advertising.
Hundreds of millions from EU funds are poured into nature protection, while 95% of the funds are stolen, so corrupt groups have enough free money in their bank accounts to bribe newsrooms. Only a naive person can think that corrupt groups would not take advantage of this, especially with such an aggressive hoax campaign as we have the opportunity to observe.
This is a mutually beneficial cooperation. The editorial offices will improve their economic results, and the corruption groups are happy that their corrupt interests are being lobbied for.
We also talked about semi-hidden advertising here. Fully hidden advertising within the grey economy can be far more insidious, and not only in the area of nature conservation.
Hidden advertising in the media in favor of political parties
Various oligarch entrepreneurs, such as Oszkár Világi, if they are clever, have no problem paying for various hidden advertisements in favor of their affiliated political parties.Zoroslav Kollár claimed in one of his videos that Monika Tódová secretly met with oligarch Oszkár Világi. Zoroslav Kollár is not a trustworthy person, but in this particular matter, he is most likely telling the truth.
Another option for hidden advertising is when a political party pays for hidden advertising for the media from the state contribution. Although it is not legal, there are ways to make it difficult to prove, or to circumvent the law in a very creative way.
And again, it is a mutually beneficial cooperation. The editorial offices will improve their economic results, and politicians are happy that journalists are doing propaganda for them and fighting against competing political parties.
Anti-corruption NGOs. The Stop Corruption Foundation and Transparency International.
This is a bit off-topic, but it's worth talking about. Anti-corruption NGOs also have a significant impact because the media often likes to quote them.Logically, as an anti-corruption activist, I also asked NGOs for help in the fight against corruption. However, I had very bad experiences with them and they did not help me in any way.
Transparency International employee Zuzana Grochalová even aggressively verbally attacked me, asking what right I had to send her an email about corruption, even though the main activity of Transparency International, as stated on its website, is the fight against corruption.
The Stop Corruption Foundation also refused to help me, but that's understandable when the head of the foundation is former journalist Zuzana Petková. And you know very well what opinion I have of journalists, who are twice as bad as politicians. It would be very outrageous if the head of Stop Corruption was a former politician, and it is even more outrageous that she is a former journalist.
I reject various conspiracies about NGOs from alternative media and far-right politicians, that they are American agents and similar pub talk, but what I certainly think about NGOs of this type is that they are marketing agencies of the PS party, which will cover up all corruption scandals of the PS party, and in return will try to discredit competing political parties. NGOs are an important tool of political struggle. Nothing more, nothing less.
By the way, some people from Transparency International also left for the PS party.
Furthermore, Michal Wiezik from PS was involved in a serious corruption affair at the ministry under Budaj and received non-transparent subsidies from the recovery plan, which he subsequently embezzled.
An important employee of the Stop Corruption Foundation is also the former head of NAKA, Ľubomír Daňko, with whom I have had disastrous experiences, as he not only refused to help me fight corruption but even proactively helped these corrupt groups.
Infantilism, personal immaturity, incompetence, and the endless human stupidity of Slovak journalists
Journalists are the scum of the nation, not only in terms of morality but also in everything written in this subtitle. It is very sad that not a single journalist was found who would not be indifferent to the total devastation of the ministry, corruption, and destruction of nature by former minister Ján Budaj and his people.Slovak journalism as a whole does not have a single positive personality, which is very sad, it is even worse than in politics.
Infantilism in the sense of an inability for social responsibility.
The intelligence of Slovak journalists is very low. The average IQ of journalists is very low.
Štefan Hamran and the Čurillovci
From the perspective of political and media marketing, I can understand people who were easily manipulated by the media propaganda surrounding Hamran and the Čurillovci. There was brilliant marketing around it. Matovič came to power, and for the first time in history, the police had their hands untied and went after big fish and Smer criminals. Štefan Hamran held fantastic press conferences where he spoke about how free the police were and how their hands were untied. And yes, I admit that I also fell for this propaganda at first.The first major doubt and partial sobering up occurred when I asked both Štefan Hamran and the head of NAKA, Ľubomír Daněk, to dismantle the corrupt criminal groups in the field of nature protection. I also gave them more than 100 pages of materials with evidence of corruption.
Hamran and Daňko not only refused to dismantle these criminal groups but even proactively helped them.
So, with the police's hands untied, it wasn't as sexy as Hamran presented it at the highly charged press conferences.
If the police really had their hands untied, if the police had the same standards for Budaj as they do for the Smer-SD members or Vladimír Pčolinský, then Budaj and his secretary Michal Kiča would have had their doors kicked in by SWAT at four in the morning and would subsequently be placed in pre-trial detention for 12 months.
Štefan Hamran even became a member of the Democrats party, thus becoming a colleague of Michal Kiča, about whose criminal offenses I provided him with evidence. Hamran became a member of the most corrupt political party, and Hamran is aware of this and is not ignorant. The Democrats party includes big fish of corruption, not only Kiča but also Jaromír Šíbl, who became a millionaire based on embezzled subsidies for pretended nature protection. Hamran knows about this.
Criminal Michal Kiča as the main source of information for the media
Journalists are at the moral bottom. After the 2023 elections, Michal Kiča became the main source of information for the media, spreading a large number of hoaxes about nature conservation. I repeatedly provided the media with evidence that this person is a criminal, spreads hoaxes, and should not be quoted. It took about 6 months for the media to stop quoting every hoax by Kiča.Journalists are total garbage and the scum of the nation when they knowingly spread the hoaxes of a criminal because it suits them for political reasons.
The media stopped quoting the malicious hoaxer Kič only after the discussion around the abolition of the Special Prosecutor's Office and the amendment to the Criminal Code subsided.
Media hysteria: abolition of the Special Prosecutor's Office and amendment to the Criminal Code
While all apolitical experts pointed out that nothing terrible was happening, the media and opposition politicians, on the contrary, were spreading hysteria.The penalties are still higher than the average in Western Europe, and the vast majority of Western states do not have a special prosecutor's office, yet these states are not accused of not having the rule of law. Nevertheless, the media has been scaring people with the total demise of the rule of law and the demise of democracy in Slovakia. But people are easily manipulated and easily fall for media propaganda. A large part of the people are not able to think critically and are not able to understand that it was just media-political games.
Interesting tidbits and experiences with specific journalists
- A fellow volunteer, an anti-corruption activist, contacted journalist Peter Hanák (Aktuality.sk) on Facebook with a request to help in the fight against corruption at Budaj's ministry. Hanák initially communicated normally, then became extremely aggressive, and later completely blocked him. This is the amazing elite of the nation, the journalists. Insecure, arrogant desperados who support corruption, environmental devastation, and the ministry. The communication from the colleague was polite the entire time.
- I sent the strongest evidence of major corruption in Budaj's department to several journalists via email, including Monika Tódová and Peter Hanák. After about three days, both Monika Tódová and Peter Hanák interviewed Budaj. It's interesting that both of them chose to interview Budaj, even though they could have chosen from a huge number of government politicians and MPs. I listened to both podcasts with great interest. I assumed that they could not ignore such strong evidence of corruption and that they would finally ask Budaj critical questions. Monika Tódová considers herself an investigative journalist, and Aktuality.sk is considered the flagship of investigative journalism. Of course, I was wrong; there were no critical questions, and the interview only served as good PR marketing for Budaj. Three days ago, Hanák and Tódová read an email with strong evidence of corruption, and now they pretend to have forgotten about it after three days. My email inspired the journalists to interview Budaj, but they deliberately concealed Budaj's corruption. Of course, this angered me and further solidified my very negative opinion of journalists.
- What is the outcome of this huge scandal? Journalists and editors-in-chief pretend to be very free and to do free journalism. But the reality is quite different. They only write on the orders of corrupt groups and selected political parties.
- A fellow volunteer and anti-corruption activist wrote a polite protest on the "Podcasty Aktuality.sk" Facebook page in response to editor Jana Kubisová writing hoaxes in favor of extremist and corrupt groups in the field of nature protection. He also provided sufficient evidence. If a decent employee from Aktuality saw such a comment, their moral duty was to admonish their colleague and ask the editor-in-chief to address it. However, the reaction was completely unexpected. An unknown editor or employee of Aktuality, without introducing themselves by name, began threatening the colleague that they would block him and file a criminal complaint with the police for some "online harassment" of a colleague. I don't know what kind of psychopath from Aktuality wrote that. Later, the colleague was indeed blocked. They certainly did not file a criminal complaint – rather, the police would have had to deal with Jana Kubisová for aiding corrupt groups. But it is very sad what malice and threats we anti-corruption activists have to face from sell-out, corrupt journalists.
- Now for an interesting tidbit, not from journalists but from politician Eduard Heger. On Eduard Heger's official prime ministerial Facebook page, both I and other anti-corruption activists commented, urging him to address corruption in the environmental ministry. However, we were all very quickly blocked. I don't know if we were blocked personally by Heger or by one of his administrators. In any case, this is a serious problem. The OĽANO party won the elections based on rhetoric of fighting corruption. In the end, the OĽANO party has as many or even more corruption scandals than the Smer party, but the media censored all of them. And when you point out corruption, you get blocked on the Facebook page. I consider the Democrats party to be unequivocally the most corrupt party. God protect Slovakia from such madmen coming to power. I have strong faith that they will not get into parliament. Another problem is that Heger is a fanatical Christian. But he is not even able to take the positive aspects of Christianity, such as honesty and the commandment "thou shalt not steal." Heger supported Budaj in stealing.
Shame: When some alternative media surpass mainstream media in some parameters
It is truly tragicomic when apolitical experts and apolitical authorities get more space in alternative media than in mainstream media. For example, Mimi Šramová's YouTube channel. Apolitical members of the Judicial Council are not at all connected with politics or political parties. The views of the Judicial Council do not fit well into the political propaganda and political struggles of the mainstream media. The Judicial Council claims that the situation with the Čurillovci was not so black and white at all and that the amendment to the Criminal Code and the abolition of the rule of law does not mean the demise of the rule of law and democracy, as opposition politicians and media are trying to scare people.Updated 22.12.2024
Huge scandal. Investigative journalist Monika Tódová has an apartment for 450,000 euros
I have my own special opinion about Monika Tódová. I don't agree with either mainstream or alternative media. I hold a more centrist view. In this article, I will only state provable facts without any bias or emotion.Although we do not have direct evidence of how many thousands of euros her apartment cost , the fact remains that her apartment is in the most luxurious district of Bratislava, where onlythe most successful entrepreneurs have apartments. While Robert Fico was able to explain where he got the money for his apartment of the same price, Monika Tódová has not been able to explain it to this day. It is interesting that she bought the apartment precisely at the time when her political fight against the Smer party was at its peak, when the political media campaign, which spoke of the direct responsibility of the Smer party for the murder of Ján and Martina, was at its peak. Personally, I think it was not a coincidence. This is a double standard of the media, because in the case of the murder of Ján and Martina, the media did not talk about the direct responsibility of Daniel Lipšic in the case of the murder of Ernest Valko.
Furthermore, Zoroslav Kollár claims that Monika Tódová secretly meets with the oligarch Oszkár Világi. Could it be him who contributed to her apartment?
Monika Tódová's supporters claim that she is a 100% honest person because she won a lawsuit against one of the alternative media outlets that criticized her for the apartment. The article was deleted from the Main Daily based on a court decision. However, one should not fall for propaganda and should read with understanding. We know little about the lawsuit filed by Monika Tódová together with Denník N. Tódová refuses to transparently disclose the details, the wording of the judgment, and the reasons why the court ordered the article to be deleted. According to the sparse information, we can deduce that the court probably only marked some minor details in the article as untrue, that Tódová had a slightly higher legal income and the price of the apartment was slightly lower. The main reason for the deletion could have been completely different reasons than untrue information, such as damage to reputation, which is defined too vaguely in the law. The court can order an article to be deleted even on the basis of true information, information that harms someone's reputation, and the judge has a lot of room for subjective interpretation of the legislation. Another thing is that the Main Daily does not have as much money as Denník N, so it was an asymmetrical fight in the lawsuit. The quality of legal services on both sides also depends on the amount of money.
In conclusion: What does this mean? Although alternative media spread many hoaxes, in this particular topic, they are largely correct. It can be considered ugly pharisaism when a journalist preaches water and drinks wine. She demands transparency from politicians, although she herself allows herself to be bought by oligarchs like a cheap prostitute, she herself is part of corruption, she herself breaks laws and does not pay taxes on illegal income. According to leaked email communication, Monika lived on the verge of poverty. However, she managed to buy herself out of poverty by becoming a journalistic prostitute and thus joined the 2% of the richest Bratislava residents.
However, only a naive person can think that Monika is the only journalist who can be bought for money. The aggressiveness of hoaxes by journalists specializing in ecology and supporting corrupt groups in the field of ecology knows no bounds, and I doubt they would do it just out of conviction and for free.
A useful idiot for the Czech media, Arpád Soltész , and the revelation of a shocking scandal about him. Who is he and what is his profile? What experience do I have with him? The Ján Kuciak Investigative Center under his leadership.
I have my own special opinion about Arpád. I don't agree with either mainstream or alternative media in how they express themselves about him.Arpád is a useful idiot who helps the Czech media spread chauvinistic propaganda about Slovakia as an inferior nation. Czech media give too much space to such individuals, who are neither a representative nor a relevant sample.
I don't know if it's true, but I heard a rumor that Arpád's wife lives in the Czech Republic and he moved to the Czech Republic to be with her. The fact that he did it just because of the election results is supposedly just a comedy on his part.
An interesting blog has also appeared, claiming that Arpád has a luxury apartment in Bratislava worth 1.7 million. I cannot guarantee the veracity of the information. If it is true, he would have something to explain. Even if the apartment was only a quarter of that price, he would still have something to explain about where he got so much money, or whether, like Monika Tódová, he is part of some corruption schemes. The author of the blog also suspects Arpád that he, as a self-proclaimed investigative journalist, is himself part of corruption schemes.
Now we will move from gossip to real facts.
Just as a side note, Arpád does not have a university degree and most likely only has a vocational school education.
Arpád Soltész and the revelation of a shocking scandal about him. What are the real facts is that I, as an anti-corruption activist, asked for help from the Ján Kuciak Investigative Center, of which Arpád was the head at the time. And I had very bad experiences with him. I was shocked when I contacted Arpád at his email and none of his colleagues replied to me, not even to 100 pages of materials about very serious corruption. Well, hard-working people who don't even find time to reply. I say that ironically, of course. They didn't help me at all in the fight against corruption.
The fact is, however, that the Ján Kuciak Investigative Center did not publish a single investigative article during the governments of Matovič, Heger, and Ódor. They only copied a few articles from other foreign journalists about international crime. So this is the incredibly hard-working Arpád. And everyone can verify that I'm not lying. Fortunately, they also listed their sponsors. I tried to contact all the sponsors to stop sending them money because they demonstrably don't work. The sponsors included international organizations as well as several foreign embassies.
Arpád is just a clever swindler who made a business out of the deaths of Ján and Martina with the film The Pig and abused their misfortune. A parasite. And it didn't end there. Arpád also made a business by establishing the Ján Kuciak Investigative Center foundation, where he raked in money from sponsors but didn't work. Passive income, a dream job.
The investigative center mysteriously came to life only after the change of government; several dangerous pseudo-ecological hoaxes from the PS party on the topic of bears, which are against the public interest, also appeared on the site. This is clear evidence that this is not honest investigative journalism but merely a tool for political struggle. And if the PS party spreads hoaxes about bears, how can we be sure that they do not spread hoaxes about other topics as well?
Journalists are oversensitive to criticism from politicians. Double standards.
Although many journalists engage in political battles as much or even more than politicians themselves, they react very sensitively when politicians criticize them. While politicians are supposed to endure everything, journalists claim that politicians have no right to criticize them.Similarly, the issue concerns some false, politically motivated NGOs that, instead of honest work, only fulfill the assignments of their oligarchic sponsors for political struggle.
When a journalist pursues a politician with a microphone and stalks them, we pretend that everything is fine, but when it's the other way around, suddenly journalists are very sensitive.
And journalists react oversensitively not only when they are criticized by politicians, but also when I criticized journalists for their participation in corruption schemes.
Updated 2/3/2025
We live in a mediacracy. The media has more power than politicians, prosecutors, and courts. An unjust society.
- We live in an extremely unjust society. A society where the media has more power than politicians, and the media abuses its power to unbearable extremes.
- Politics is dictated by both alternative and mainstream media. And no politician will go against the media that stand behind them, because they would lose voters and be under unpleasant psychological pressure.
- Czech Prime Minister Fiala and his colleagues have opted for a hateful policy against Slovakia, as they were led to do so by the Czech media. The rule is, do what the media tells you will bring you points.
- The Czech President promised the Slovak President that he would object to the hateful sentiments against Slovaks in the Czech Republic, but later abandoned it. As soon as he made such a statement, President Pavel would become the media's enemy number one overnight. From being the media's darling, he would become a hunted animal in the course of one day.
- In previous articles and podcasts, I have given several examples of how the media fights against one corrupt group while defending the corruption of another. The media will censor all corruption of one political party, even if the chairman of that party were to chop up children live on air, while they will invent hoaxes about another political party to tarnish it.
- Never have people been so easily manipulated by the media as they are today. This is probably related to digital dementia, social networks, PC games, and unlimited entertainment options. It was not like that in the past. In the past, people had time to contemplate and process information. In the past, people had less information, but they were able to process and evaluate it. Today, people have so much information that they cannot process and analytically evaluate it.
- The norm, what people consider to be the truth, is determined by the media. The media creates cognitive dissonance.
- What the media does, whether intentionally or not, is constantly divert attention from important things. On the contrary, some inconspicuous, little-read article may be more important than a viral one.
- The mysterious silence of the media in the case of Matovič's and Heger's government, when Minister Budaj was demonstrably controlled by Jaromír Šibl, a member of the criminal group BROZ, which stole 80 million euros. One of the biggest corruption scandals in the history of Slovak politics went through mysterious silence and muteness. The main thing is that the media constantly distract attention with insignificant nonsense compared to this.
- Some media can go to the most absurd extremes. They turn Michal Kica, a member of the BROZ corruption-related organized crime group, into an anti-corruption activist and a credible source of information. No critical questions. No questions about his corruption, even though the media has detailed evidence. No questioning of Kica's hoaxes by the moderator. The media can turn even a madman who cut up small children in a live broadcast into an anti-corruption activist if it suits their political struggle.
- We live in a very unjust society. One of the areas with the most corruption is nature protection. However, this type of corruption enjoys enormous media support. And the media has more power than the police, prosecutors, and courts. The police are extremely inefficient, and lawyers get 99% of real corrupt individuals off the hook. That's how the system is set up. If the police worked and at least a few people involved in nature protection were legally convicted, it would have a strong deterrent effect. But that doesn't happen. If the media acted in the public interest, political parties would be forced under their pressure to expel these corrupt individuals from the party, or people would not vote for them at all. The media has the greatest power to cut corrupt politicians off from power.
Updated 8.6.2025
The unpleasant and painful truth about investigative journalism in Slovakia: the basis is the bribery of journalists by dubious interest groups.
As a person who sees behind the scenes of media power games, I can openly confirm that there are no greater hypocrites and scoundrels than journalists. Those journalists who shout the loudest about how anti-corruption and investigative they are, I have evidence that they receive the most bribes from various corrupt groups to keep silent. Journalists preach water and drink wine. They point fingers at the corruption of politicians, while they themselves accept bribes. Only a small part of corruption scandals becomes public. People are incredibly manipulated.When a political party is labeled by journalists as "anti-corruption," it doesn't mean it's true; the naive layman has no idea how many appalling corruption scandals the media has censored for their favorite "anti-corruption" party.
Anti-government media can very quickly turn into pro-government media and vice versa.
The media in Slovakia are strongly anti-government because the political parties within Robert Fico's government are currently in power. However, if "the right" political parties, led by Progressive Slovakia, were in power, the anti-government media would suddenly turn pro-government, and all corruption affairs and other scandals would be censored by this government.The media can very quickly turn anti-state or strongly pro-state if the "right" or "wrong" political parties are in power.
The media also morally corrupts the political parties they help. They censor all their corruption scandals and do not criticize them for anything. If a politician does not have proper feedback from the media, then they do not even try to do anything for the people. When a politician senses that the media is censoring all their corruption scandals, it corrupts them and they will steal more and more. Many people find the unpleasant truth hard to hear, but it is demonstrably and provably true that far more was stolen under Matovič than under Smer. Matovič spat in the voters' faces and did not keep his promise in the fight against corruption. Just as a small example, several people from the PS party received corrupt subsidies, and former minister Ján Budaj paid his friends at least 30 million euros in subsidies for fictitious nature protection for the BROZ association. It is demonstrably and provably true that 98% of this money was stolen.
Is Slovakia really the worst country in Europe in all parameters?
For example, Czech brothers may not understand why we Slovaks often humiliate ourselves by saying we are the worst country, so it needs to be explained.Some Slovak citizens, manipulated by the media, claim this and also hate their own nation. However, they only claim this because they have not come to terms with the election results and they claim it only out of political spite. On the contrary, if "the right" political parties came to power, then suddenly the media and the people who believe them would claim that we are either an average or above-average country in Europe.
Why declaring war on the government is not right
- Media criticism of any government is very necessary, good, correct, desirable, and in the public interest. However, when it comes to an open war against the government, regardless of whether it does good or bad things, then it is no longer okay, and the private owner of the media has arrogantly abused their power.
- About half of the criticism of the current government by the current media is objective and justified, but the other half is more or less propaganda, manipulative handling of information, demagoguery, and in extreme cases, even open hoaxes.
- Often, even a good and desirable law is presented as bad and harmful (e.g., the Environmental Impact Assessment Act).
- Another problem is that the media does not acknowledge the various positive aspects and successes of the current government because journalists have not come to terms with the election results.
- The consequences of such media manipulation are the unnecessary division of society and the spread of hatred, which even led to the assassination of the Prime Minister. The media has created an atmosphere in Slovakia that is not far from open civil war.
- It is also wrong that the media completely dehumanizes politicians and makes them out to be Satanists who do nothing but destroy the country. Even the most hardcore religious fanatics who hate LGBT people, who believe this media propaganda about politician-Satanists, believe that Šimečka is the savior and redeemer of Slovakia. It's bizarre, it's a paradox, but it's true.
- Slovakia is probably the only country in the world where the media abuses power in the most arrogant way in the fight against the government.
- It is not right when the media propagates corruption in the pension case, where the damages were in the hundreds of thousands, as if the damages were in the billions. They create a false atmosphere as if it were billions. Many people are stupid and easily manipulated, and they swallow this propaganda from the media.
- It is not right that the basic philosophy of the media is hatred.
The media invited people to anti-government demonstrations. An arrogant abuse of media power.
This is an extremely serious violation of journalistic ethics and clear evidence that a large part of the media is not impartial or independent, but rather journalists behave like PR marketing agencies for political parties or as members of political parties. Slovakia is probably the only country where the media so arrogantly abuses power.Updated 16/07/2025
Who spreads fewer hoaxes, conspiracies, and hatred? Who is a lesser conspirator? Alternative or mainstream media? The extreme right or the extreme left?
I do not want to diminish the seriousness of hoaxes spread by alternative media or the extreme right, but I will focus my attention on the extreme left or mainstream media. Why? Because these things are well recorded and documented, and I would be repeating myself unnecessarily.What is the truth? It is not entirely clear which of these ideological camps is the lesser conspirator and hoaxer. Both opinion camps have a lot to reproach each other for in terms of spreading hoaxes and disinformation.
Specific examples of the dissemination of hoaxes, conspiracies, and propaganda by so-called mainstream media:
- The obsession of Czech journalists to give Slovakia negative publicity. Hidden racism in the Czech media. Propaganda, half-truths, hoaxes
- hoaxes in favor of climate alarmism, extremist "ecology". The hoax that even an intervention team will hunt a few bears, thus threatening the extinction of the entire population. The hoax that the only proper nature protection in national parks is dead forests eaten by bark beetles. Some "ecological" hoaxes are as absurd as saying that "the earth is flat", yet so-called serious media give space to such crazy activists and journalists.
- hoaxes in favor of the green deal
- dehumanization, hate speech against the fourth government of Robert Fico, inability to inform about any successes and positives of the government. The hate culminated in the assassination attempt on Robert Fico
- Some media outlets, such as TV Markíza, have declared total war on the government. The Málinec pumped-storage power plant, and the information about it, is presented as a prime example. A positive thing propagandistically labeled as harmful.
- 65% of PS voters believe in the conspiracy theory that the assassination of Robert Fico did not happen.
- The psychologically complexed "journalist" Adel Grannam , whose only skill is to provoke politicians, believes in similar paranoid conspiracy theories. A mysterious conspiracy between lawyer Kažimír and the apolitical independent associate professor Eduard Burda is born!!
- absolute censorship of corruption and other scandals of popular politicians and political parties. The PS party has not even entered the government yet, and numerous corruption scandals are already known about it. The media is silent. Censorship of very serious corruption scandals of former minister Budaj
- hoaxes about the Čurilovci
The biggest mafia is not politicians but the media.
While journalists label their unpopular politicians as mafia, which has proven to be untrue and propaganda, it is precisely these same journalists who are the real mafia. And it's not just hate against journalists on my part, but such claims are substantiated by rich experience and real facts.Journalists preach water and drink wine. On the one hand, they pretend to be investigative and anti-corruption fighters, but the truth is that these same journalists are the ones who receive the most bribes to censor the corruption scandals of their favorite politicians. They censor the corruption of their own sponsors, such as the BROZ association.
The most bribes and corruption are concentrated not in politics but in the media.
Journalists preach water and drink wine. And they are world champions in hypocrisy. They hate and spread hatred against their unpopular politicians, but if a politician criticizes them, they act as if they were untouchable, uncriticizable, and as if it were an attack on the media and an attack on freedom of speech.
If there were justice in this world, investigative journalists would also have to be investigated by the police and convicted of complicity in corruption schemes. In practice, however, this will never happen because the media has more power than the police, prosecutors, and courts. The police and politicians would be accused of establishing a dictatorship that abolishes freedom of speech and persecutes journalists.
Why do the media have a greater influence than politicians?
The media plays the role of education, parent, educator, and teacher. Many journalists do not realize their social responsibility and abuse their power to spread hatred towards political opponents and the like. This also applies to alternative and mainstream media. Journalists lead people to divide society.Imagine if a teacher or parent openly led children to hatred. In the media, this happens every day.
The media set a precedent for censoring corruption by a favorite politician as early as the Mečiar era. The Technopol case, Michal Kováč Jr.
Censoring scandals involving popular politicians has a long tradition in Slovakia.The media censored and downplayed the seriousness of the Michal Kováč affair because it suited them for the purpose of political struggles.
Some media outlets, such as TV Markíza, have declared total war on the government. The Málinec pumped-storage power plant, informing about it as a prime example.
One thing is objective and factual criticism of any government, which I fully support, but another thing is the boundless hate from the media, when they label even a fantastic project as something harmful, negative and against the public interest.Human stupidity knows no bounds, and there are always people who have been manipulated by this propaganda and have not understood that the media is lying to them.
PVE Málinec shrouded in mystery #4 | Reflex https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=8qkXA3diFlA