A government spokesman says he will inform Hugh Grant about the workings of the Hungarian press after the British actor cited Hungary as an example of the perils of state control of the media. Grant made the remarks in the European Parliament while advocating legal limits to media ownership at a Pan-European Forum on Media Pluralism and New Media. His main message, however, was that democracy had been undermined in the UK by politicians’ fear of large media organisations.
“Some people would argue that the same was the case in Italy under Berlusconi,” Grant said. This state of affairs was the opposite extreme from the “equally terrifying” danger of too much state control of the media, the actor said. “One has to be equally vigilant about that, if you look at Hungary as an example. So you’ve got two evils.”
Grant said he was in Brussels to “raise the flag” about the former evil.
Christian Democrat politician (and former MTV news anchor) István Pálffy suggested Grant may be suffering from delusions of grandeur. “I think Hugh Grant must be stuck in one of his acting roles and still believes he is the British prime minister, whom he played in the film Love Actually,” Pálffy said.
http://www.budapesttimes.hu/2012/07/09/no-love-lost-actually/
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