Hungarian Government to Submit Public Media Reform Bill Next Week
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Peter Madyar promises to provide balanced coverage of events.
Hungarian Government to Submit Public Media Reform Bill Next Week
The Hungarian government will submit legislation next week aimed at a comprehensive overhaul of the country’s public media system, Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced on Saturday. In a post published on Facebook, the prime minister said the reform’s primary objective is to ensure balanced and impartial public service broadcasting. ‘The news is sacred, opinion is free,’ Magyar wrote, echoing a principle commonly associated with independent jour…
The public media has been a primary target of political struggles for many years. Media war is a term that has accompanied party political struggles since the change of regime. And Péter Magyar has a particular attachment to the institution, so it is no wonder that one of his first steps after the election is its complete transformation. The draft has been completed and will be submitted to the National Assembly next week.
According to the Hungarian Prime Minister, the goal is balanced information.
Next week we will submit to the Parliament a bill on the complete transformation of the public media. The goal is balanced information. “News is sacred, opinions are free,” announced Prime Minister Péter Magyar on Facebook. However, not everyone is waiting for the big transformation: Dániel Papp, CEO of the fake news agency MTVA, has initiated the termination of his employment with András Koltay, Chairman of the NMHH Media Council, as the exerci…
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Madyar announced the introduction to parliament of a draft law on the “radical transformation” of the state media, which in the era of Viktor Orban was transformed into the information arm of power.
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