Media Workers Have Been Collecting Information for Years About How News Was Manipulated and Suppressed at MTI
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The Hungarian news agency presented a 500-page documentation to show the years of political control and the suppression of critical reporting nutter Viktor Orbán. The former ruling party Fidesz rejects allegations
Several employees of the Hungarian Telegraph Agency (MTI) handed over the 482-page document to the public media service's new managers, who were appointed in July.
A 482-page document was handed over by some employees of the Hungarian Telegraph Office to the appointed leaders of the public media.
MTI journalists spent 10 years collecting orders from higher-ups to suppress and transcribe news. The new management of MTVA has launched an investigation into the matter.
MTI's correspondents and editors, who are known as the PRO DOMO working group, are behind this ten-year collection of documents dealing with correspondence, e-mails or chat messages. This was handed over to MTVA, the umbrella organisation of Hungarian public-law media, the online portal "Telex.hu. MTVA announced an internal investigation and published a selection of documents as a representative cross-section of the available material. Thus, PRO…
A nearly 500-page document compiled by employees of the Hungarian news agency MTI is intended to prove systematic news manipulation and censorship at the agency during the time of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's ousted government. The release of the documents is meant to expose years of political control and the suppression of critical reporting.
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