|
Parts
of this section:
1
2
3
4
Detailed Analysis:
I
Eesti Päevaleht
("Estonian Daily"), 12 articles
(EP1)
Title:
Eestis on vähem aidsi kui Lätis ("There is Less
AIDS in Estonia T
han in
Latvia")
Date:
September 1, 1999, p. 10; 58 words
Content:
Statistics about the spread of AIDS in the Baltic States
(Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). People infected with HIV
are mostly males.
(EP2)
Title:
Erki Nool jättis Leena varju: Ugala
külalisetenduste nädal Tallinnas
trotsis
Sevilla teleülekandeid ("Erki Nool [prominent Estonian athlete]
Overshadowed Leena [A leading character of one of the
plays]: A Week of
Guest
Performances of Theater Ugala in Tallinn Defied the TV
Broadcast
from
Sevilla.
Date:
September 1, 1999, p. 11; 715 words + 3 photos
Content:
During the week of guest performances in Tallinn,
Theater "Ugala"
from
Viljandi performed a play "Flying Saurians" by a "cult
author" of the
AIDS-era
Nicky Silver. Play concerned several problems
characteristic to
the turn
of the century such as AIDS and deviant sexual behavior.
(EP3)
Title:
Arstid ennustavad aidsiplahvatust ("Medics
Forecast AIDS Explosion")
Date:
September 15, 1999, p. 5; 33 words + Dr. Kalikova’s
portrait
Content:
According to the director of the AIDS Prevention Center,
Dr. Nelli
Kalikova, AIDS will explosively spread in Estonia due to
an increasing number
of IV
(intravenous) drug-addicts.
(EP4)
Title:
Narkomaanid saavad Balti jaamast uue doosi ja süstla
("Drug-Addicts
Get a
New Dose and a Syringe from the Baltic Railway Station)
Date:
September 17, 1999, p. 7; 603 words + 2 photos
Content:
Volunteers from the AIDS Prevention Center shared free
syringes to
drug-addicts in the Baltic Railway Station (Tallinn) – a
reportage from the Baltic
Railway
Station. Top 7 of the most sold drugs in Estonia.
(EP5)
Title:
Minu laps ja narkomaan ("My Child and a
Drug-Addict")
Date:
September 22, 1999, p. 2; 202 words (see also next
article)
Content:
Columnist discusses the drug problem in Estonia
referring to a
volunteer from the AIDS Prevention Center who said that
instead of selling
drugs to
the youth the drug-dealers should be arrested.
(EP6)
Title:
Ene poeg suri Balti jaamas: Mustamäe haiglas lebab
kümmekond surmale
määratud narkomaani
("Ene’s Son Died at the Baltic Railway Station: About
Ten
Drug-Addicts Lay in the Mustamäe Hospital Fated to Die")
Date:
September 22, 1999, p. 7, 491 words + 1 photo
Content:
Ene’s 21 years old son died on Saturday at the Baltic
Railway Station
due to
a drug overdose. Short interview with Ene whose son was
a drug-addict
for 7
years. A commentary by the AIDS Prevention Center’s
director Dr. Kalikova
about
the dynamics and types of drug-addiction. The director
of Mustamäe
hospital
describes final sufferings of drug-addicts. An overview
of drugs’ dose- a
nd
price-list.
(EP7)
Title:
Baskini anekdoot ("Baskin’s anecdote")
Date:
October, 8, 1999, p. 23; 85 words + Baskin’s portrait
Content:
[Eino Baskin is a famous Estonian humorist whose jokes
and
anecdotes are regularly published in Eesti Päevaleht
under the title "Baskin’s
anecdote."] A joke about how three people from three
different nations die after
a
doctor has diagnosed that they have AIDS.
(EP8)
Title:
Aids – hane selga vesi ("AIDS Does Not Stop the
Increase of the World
Population")
Date:
October 13, 1999, p. 8; 211 words.
Content:
Neither wars nor diseases (including AIDS—a plague of
the 20th century)
cannot
stop the increase of the world population. AIDS is the
most prevalent death
cause
among the other infections in Africa.
(EP9)
Title:
Linnateater avab saali matustega: Kammersaalis
esietendub Euroopa
raadiojaamades laineid löönud "Hall mees" (The City Theater Opens a New Hall
with
Funerals: "Gray Man," Which Made a Great Stir in
European Radio
Broadcasts, is Performed in a New Chamber Hall for the
First Time")
Date:
October, 21, p. 15; 253 words + 1 photo.
Content:
First opening of a Gill Adams’ play "Gray Man" in the
City Theater.
Father
returns from his son’s funerals in America who died of
AIDS. Play describes
the
relationships between the stubborn old man and his
remissible wife.
(EP10)
Title:
Venemaa rahvaarv kahaneb kiiresti ("Population of
Russia Quickly Decreases")
Date:
October 25, 1999, p. 5; 35 words.
Content:
A leading American social scientist Murray Feshbach
forecasts a quick
decrease
of population in Russia due to AIDS, tuberculosis, and
several other
infectious diseases.
(EP11)
Title:
Tagasitulek poja juurest jõudis Linnateatri lavale:
Gill Adamsi "Hall mees"
esietendus.
("A Return From the Son Reached to the City Theater: A
Premiere of
"Gray
Man," by Gill Adams").
Date:
October 29, 1999, p. 11; 358 words
Content:
The play focuses on relations between a man and a woman
discussing
"hot
topics" such as AIDS and homophobia.
(EP12)
Title:
Sea süda inimesele: Loomalt saadud organiga inimene
ei tohiks lapsi saada
("A
Pig’s Heart to a Human Being: People, Having a
Transplanted Animal Organ,
Should
not Have Babies")
Date:
October 30, 1999, p. 7; 367 words + 1 photo
Content:
Transplantation of animal organs to humans could be
dangerous—it is
possible
to infect humans with animal, AIDS-like diseases.
II
Postimees
("Postman"), 4 articles
(PM1)
Title:
Kuldne aasta ("Golden Year")
Date:
September 18, 1999, p. 14; 30 words
Section: Weekend supplement "Culture," Book Review
Content:
"Golden Year," a book by Elizabeth Falconer translated
into Estonian
by Maire
Kõvamees. A modern novel of breaking families and new
love stories
which
are shadowed by homosexual relations and AIDS.
(PM2)
Title:
Earvin Magic Johnson vaimustas rootslasi ("Swedes
Were Enchanted by
Earvin
Magic Johnson")
Date:
October 27, 1999, p. 20; 420 words + 1 picture
Section: Sport
Content:
A legend of NBA Earvin Magic Johnson, infected with HIV,
led the
Swedish
basketball team Borås Magic M7 to a victory over the
Uppsala Sallen.
(PM3)
Title:
"Magic: olen elanud suurepärast elu" ("Magic: I
Have Lived a Wonderful Life")
Date:
October 27, 1999, p. 20; 358 words + 1 picture
Section: Sport
Content:
On October 25, 1991, Magic Johnson learned that he has
been infected
with
HIV. "If I die tomorrow or in a year or in some other
time, I know that I have
lived a
wonderful life."
(PM4)
Title:
AIDS levib haigust salgavates maades ("AIDS
Spreads in the Countries
Denying
its Existence)
Date:
October 28, 1999, p. 12; 287 words
Section: Foreign news
Content:
Researchers are worried about the spread of the deadly
disease AIDS in
Asia—countries in this part of the world do virtually nothing to
prevent its spread by
denying
even its existence.
III Eesti Ekspress ("Estonian Express"), 5 articles
(EE1)
Title:
Migraamet kiusab soome õppejõudu ("Immigration
Office Persecutes a
Finnish
Lecturer")
Date:
September 9, 1999, p. A15; 439 words + 1 photo
Section: Local news
Content:
Immigration Office declined the application of Tarja T.
(a Finnish lecturer at
the
Tallinn Pedagogical University) for a residence and work
permit claiming that her
certificate of AIDS-test was expired.
(EE2)
Title:
Aatomiplahvatused siidil ("Atomic/Nuclear
Explosions on Silk")
Date:
September 30, 1999, p. B9; 109 words
Section: "Arena" [Culture section], art news
Content:
A personal exhibition of Christel Allik in Kastellaan
Gallery. Fear of the
nuclear
explosion is probably one of the most threatening
dangers facing the humankind.
Yet, it
is not talked much about any more as there are several
new trendy hazards
such as
drugs, AIDS, gene-manipulations. Yet, Christel Allik’s
silk-paintings reflect
nuclear
explosions
(EE3)
Title:
Klubiseksuaalsus ("Club Sexuality")
Date:
October, 7, 1999, p. B3; 240 words + several photos
Section: "Arena" [Culture section], cover story
Content:
An interview with a young Estonian art critic about the
sexuality of "club
people."
Club people are well aware of the post-AIDS era.
Sexuality is a part of
communication but it does not result in close physical
relations. It is a possibility
and
temptation to have sex with everybody at a party—an
option, which is rarely
made
real.
(EE4)
Title:
Süütud mängud ("Innocent Games")
Date:
October 21, 1999, p. B22; 100 words
Section: "Arena" [Culture section], humor page
Content:
"Dear reader: Stories, you’ll find from this page every
now and then, were
written
by the English writer A. A. Milne after he had cured
from a long and severe
mental
disease during which he had written the infamous book
about the Winnie the
Pooh
which blighted the life of the whole pre-AIDS generation
…"
(EE5)
Title:
Onda Sonora "Red, Hot+Lisbon" (Onda Sonora "Red,
Hot+Lisbon")
Date:
October, 21, 1999, p. B19; 126 words
Section: "Arena" [Culture section], Music Review
Content:
Onda Sonora "Red, Hot+Lisbon" – another charity CD,
musicians against AIDS.
Appendix 4C: Detailed media analysis for Hungary (prepared by
Dr Nguyen-Luu)
Magyar Hirlap
October 1 Friday
Page 7, 400 words, ironic writing on designated zone,
management of prostitution question.
In vein of the new Mafia law, prostitutes are considered
alike as Mafia. The whole country is a
designated zone.
October 2. Saturday
Page 4, 150 words Result of opinion poll: 98% of patients are
satisfied with medical work (doctors
and nurses’ work), but they complain about the conditions in
hospital. Methodological problems:
questionnaires were distributed and collected by nurses on
the day patients left the hospital.
Page 7, 200 words article with an ironic voice on the same
topic: patients say they are satisfied..
October 4, Monday
Page 1
and continued on page11, 700 words
Tobacco manufacturers are given additional time to reduce
nicotine and other health damaging
components’ level in their product to reach the requirements.
The manufacturers are not given
any reduction in taxes.
Cigarette can cause cancer, especially dangerous changes in
skin.
October 5. Tuesday
Page 4,
50 word news, the Hungarian Socialist Party (one of the
opposition, parliament
parties)
would vote more money for national health.
October 6. Wednesday
Page 6, 500 words compulsory inoculation against Hepatitis B.
110 thousand primary school
children will be inoculated. This will give defense for 5-10
years. Spread by blood and other body
fluids as well as sexually, its spreading capacity is 100
times higher than HIV. Hepatitis B virus can
be long-lived, it can remain in dried wounds for weeks.
According to WHO every year 2 million
people die of Hepatitis B in the world. In Hungary every year
2300 people get sick in it.
October 7. Thursday
Page 5,
400 words, increase can be expected in drugs use
according to the opinion of an
employee
of the Supreme Court.
Page 13
, 100 words, a cigarette smuggler was caught my police
October 8, Friday
Page 6. 600 words, more precautions drugs users. Mainly
marijuana is taken by secondary school
children. The problem is if teachers are aware of the fact
that their pupils are using drugs they have
to report to the police, and it will have legal consequences.
There is hardly any communication between
teacher and student or student-student on this topic.
Page 15, 50 words news: a Yugoslavian drugs smuggler was
caught by the Interpol.
October 9, Saturday
Page 14. Half page, ironic report on an erotic exhibition in
Budapest with "erotica.hu" title.
October 12. Tuesday
Page 25, 400 words news on medical research of the Nobel
prized Günter Blobel. Proteins send
information to each other within the cells. Knowing the
mechanism of this, even inherited diseases
can be cured.
October 13, Wednesday
Whole page report Kofi Annan visited the 6 billionth baby of
the world. Every second 5 babies are born,
most of them in very poor countries. Exact number cannot be
known, birth is not officially noted
everywhere. WHO deals with education for would-be parents:
safe pregnancy, harmonious sexual
development of adolescents, etc. 60% of couples use
contraceptive, but still, 100 millions of them do
not use any. Every year 50 million women have abortions, half
of them are not done safely.
Every day 16 thousand people get infected by HIV. Every year
300 million people have sexually spread,
curable diseases.
Out of 100 new-born babies only 3 are born in rich countries.
October 15, Friday
Page 5,
150 words, Open day on mental hygenie and health
programs, the struggle against
alcoholism, first aid mental services
October 16, Saturday
Page 7, 1,000 words, discussion on reform of health insurance
system: if health insurance is not
available for everyone, many people will not go to preventive
examinations, it will result in diseases that
cost more money. Money plus humanitarian aspects should and
could be harmonised.
October 22, Friday
Page 13, 30 word news: 100 kg cocaine was seized by the
police in Szigethalom
Page 22, 400 word Hungarian research team is working on a
program against cancer, their results show
that self-destructive program can be activated in cancer
cells.
October 25, Wednesday
Page 5, 350 words, the police is not investigating the
fake-medication case. In summer, in two natural
medical centers, injections containing steroid were given to
patients , but the doctors were not aware of
the steroids in the medication.
November 4, Thursday
Page 13, 50 words Ministry of Education gives information
booklet on drug prevention for schools. Recently
drug use has been increased by 5 times.
November 5, Friday
Page 13 Tuberculosis is also spreading, not only AIDS. Last
week Asia AIDS Conference called the
governments’ attention to the issue. AIDS can go together
with TB. Some of Asian TB types are immune
for medication. The most infected country is Thailand.
Preventing work seems to be successful. There are
still separated, sterile remote villages, places in Asia
where HIV has not reached yet, in contrary to Africa,
where it is too late to make preventive steps: there are no
more separated places from HIV point of view.
November 9, Tuesday
Page 15, 150 words, 1,000 Extasy tablets were seized by the
police, the most extensive distributing
network was revealed by the police after several months of
investigation. The Extasy tablets worth two
and half million forints (10 thousand USD).
Page 6, 800 words, prostitutes in Joszefvaros (the poorest
and infamous of prostitution district of Budapest)
owe 20 million forints of fine. They can be taken into
custody if do not pay the fine (only 10% of the fine has
been paid). The compulsory medical examination program for
the prostitutes is a big failure. Only 12 went for
tests.
November 10 Wednesday
Page 1, 800 word article: Health minister: employees cannot
spend more than 6 hours per day in front of
computer monitors.
November 11 Thursday
Page 13, 300 words, young Ukraine women are robed and forced
to be prostitute by criminals. They are
brought to "work" in Budapest.
November 16, Tuesday
Page 15, 150 word, designated zone in the place of an old
factory.
November 17, Wednesday
Page 5, 300 word
Prostitutes do not go to medical examination, out of 10
thousand of them only 12 went to tests. Alteration
in regulations is suggested.
Page 5, 450 words, a smoking employee is suiting the company
that has fired him because of his
smoking and the company did not mark smoking zone as required
by the law.
November 19 Friday
Page 11, 700 words, world famous Hungarian neuroendocrine
researchers came home to Budapest to
have a conference.
November 20, Saturday
Page 15, 220 words, two drug addicts of Georgian origin
killed a man to get money for drug.
November 22 Monday
Page 12, 300 word news on web sites that try to legalise
marijuana use.
November 24
Page 17, 250 words, designated zone, as the real and fake
news spread where might be the designated
zone, it influences the real estate prices. No one knows yet
where they will be.
November 25, Thursday
Anti-constitutional elements in the new drug law (personal
identification of prostitutes, drug users...)
November 26. Friday
Page 5,
200 words, the medical responsibility insurance for
hospitals is getting more expensive.
Page 13 150 words, Haemophilia Foundation has filed a law
suit because 700 haemophilia patients were
given Hepatitis C infected blood, despite the fact that this
virus was identified in 1989, this kind of
examination (Hepatitis C in donated blood) has been done only
since 1993. Similarly to HIV infected infusion
cases, they claim for compensation from the government.
November 27 Saturday
Page 1, 270 words, every year 10 billion forints are spent on
medication as pain killers, anxiety relievers,
drugs for high blood pressure, depression and ulcer-
Page 6, 200 words, part from a 1600 word long article: the
importance of healthy life style.
Page 21 news 50-50 words:
the police found in a raid in a discotheque that 80 young
people had used marijuana
a young person died in heroin overdose.
Népszabadság
October 1, Friday
Page 1+9, 2/3 of a page, medical mistakes (e.g. maltreatment
of a disease, doctors left a towel in the
patient’s body in operation etc.), more hundreds law suits,
70% of cases are not due to doctors’ mistakes,
but because of circumstances, conditions in hospitals.
Page 25 70 words, 2,000 kg hashish was seized by the police
in Toronto.
October 2, Saturday
Page 5, 80 words, most of patients are satisfied with
hospitals
October 4, Monday
Page 5, 400 words, doctors are dismissed because of lack in
financial sources. 50 out of 160 hospitals are
close to bankruptcy.
October 5, Tuesday
Page 5, 100 words, more money should be spent for drugs
problem. During the last three years the number
of those who have tried drugs at least once increased by 2,5
times. 1 billion forints is needed.
Page 23, 150 words, Teenager ambulance is open to reduce non
desired pregnancy.
October 7, Thursday
Page 23 short news 80 words in Bristol 99% of 5,10,20,50
pound banknote have cocaine traces.
October 8, Friday
Page 23, 60 words, 2 tons of Marijuana was seized in Antwerp.
It was transported from Ghana.
October 9, Saturday
Page 5. 200 words The Minister of Youth and Sports talks
about drug prevention. 100 thousand drug
users in the country.
Page 19, 300 words, witnesses of Jehovah’s campaign for
blood-free operations. The Bible inhibits
transfusion of blood. Some of doctors support this one year
old program, saying blood transfusion can
spread diseases.
Page 19 50 words short news 10 kg of heroin was seized at the
borders.
Page 26+27 the whole page. Question of tip for doctors
(gratitude money in Hungarian). There are only
few operations, these are not evenly distributed among the
doctors (it is an issue as operation goes
with tip). Moral question of gratitude money.
October 11, Monday
Page 14, 500 words , new medical instrument to show breast
cancer.
Page 14, 200 words, life-saving bandage that can stop
bleeding.
October 12, Tuesday
Page 5, 400 words expensive medical mistakes, medical
responsibility insurance is not a good business.
Page 25, 400 words, now officially we have 6 billion people
in the world, visit of Kofi Annan to the 6
billionth baby. 1.3% increase of population per year.
October 13, Wednesday
Page 22, 500 words, 6 billion people, problems of increasing
population and global problems
October 14, Thursday
Page 5, 300 words. Depression is common among the low SES
groups .
Page 32, half a page. Pay attention to our spine at work,
appropriate sitting, right moves.
October 16, Saturday
Page 34 almost half a page, prostitution as a social problem
Page 1 half a page, Peace Nobel Prize for Medicines Sans
Frontiers and their activities.
Page 25 whole page about 6 billion people, "from Amazon to
amazon.com", people live in very different
life conditions.
October 18, Monday
Page 31, half a page According to an investigation beggars
are not Mafia as many Hungarians think.
October 19, Tuesday
Page 6, 300 words, prostitution law in Sweden (not the
prostitutes, but the customers should pay a
fine) does not work.
Page 26, 400 words there is a transsexual couple who would
like to have the operation. After the
operation their marriage will not be valid. This couple has
to face prejudice, hostility and mocking from
people who cause them so much trouble that they have to hire
a lawyer. People are enraged that the
social security would cover the operations.
Page 26. 100 words according to the new law, all sex
advertisements are prohibited in Hungary. A fine
of million forints are possible in a particular case of
transgression.
October 20, Wednesday
Page 11, half page, alcoholics die early, Dr Bela Buda,
psychiatric, scientific director of the National
Alcohology Center talks about alcoholism, its serious
health and financial consequences. It costs the
budget more to deal with health problems as consequences of
alcohol than the alcohol taxes. Prejudices
against alcoholic patients.
October 25, Monday
Page 5, 500 words. It is about a book presentation organized
by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Union of Jewish Communities and Ministry of national cultural
heritage. Written by Hadassa Ben-Ittol,
the book talks about the lies that try to use Jewish
conspiracy theory to explain catastrophes, wars,
revolution, economic crisis, terrorism and even the spread of
AIDS.
Page 10, 1500 words, war against prostitution has been going
on since Communist time. The capital does
not know yet where to place the prostitutes. The 8th
district has promised to find a place, but they have not
come up yet with a concrete idea. Maybe there should be a
retraining for prostitutes, teaching them other
professions.
Parts of this section:
1
2
3
4
|
