The newspapers belonging to the other consortia mainly questioned the price of the set by Dudian. However newspapers under the wings of Mellon and Krylov consortium directly called it outrageous. They used extremely sharp words such as 'arrogant', 'young and frivolous' and other words to describe Dudian.
Moreover the offending didn't end by just those simple words. One of the newspapers took the initiate to describe Dudian in way that people's hatred would arise. Their comment was: "For architect Dean to put such a price is mainly because of the 'epoch' medal. He doesn't put masters in his eyes and thinks that his research can go beyond the work of a master!"