Culture: Media and Kis-Toth Lajos Photographs

We've been interested to see what the mass media, and local media has to offer. Eszterházy Károly Főiskola has it's own Liceum Television that is broadcast on the satellite and online. If you'd like to take a look go to this link.

We look at TV at night, a little CNN, a little BBC, and an amazing number of shows that we kind of recognize (Moonlighting, The Saint, Andy Griffith), but in Hungarian. I can recognize a few words--even the Cartoon Channel! We get a Turner Classic Movie each night as well. The Superbowl was better the next day than it would have been at home--almost no commercials! They did include Bruce Springsteen's half-time show.

We've asked some people about how so much very current information, particularly sports events, are so quickly translated and dubbed, not just narrated. I'm not sure I have the full story yet. I'm confident I will learn more, however, because our department is very rich in knowledge, skill, and talent in media arts.

An example of this is Dr. Kis-Tóth's wonderful photographs of one of his several trips across the U.S. by automobile. His photos are on display in the Lyceum, and I'm able to tell him about the times I have visited most of the national parks he photographed. Jack and I were in Mesa Verde National Park, in the Cliff Palace (see above just last summer! And yesterday, Jack said, "There's the Vice Rector on TV!" It was an interview program called Arckepek--I'll have to ask him about it.