Hacked Off: How Should ‘Journalists’ at Hungary’s State Media Be Treated?
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Hacked Off: How Should ‘Journalists’ at Hungary’s State Media Be Treated?
Orban turned Hungary’s public service media into a propaganda machine after taking office in 2010. Now out of power, questions are being raised about what to do with the state media and the journalists who supported the system.
The Media Forum Association has prepared a working document on how to establish – or rather start a dialogue about establishing – new frameworks for press freedom and the media market. What should be done with the media law, public media, and how is it worth protecting press freedom and democratic publicity? The Media Forum Association was founded a year ago by independent editorial offices – Partizán, Magyar Hang, Átlátszó, Direkt 36, Magyar Na…
"I was lying in waves morning, noon and night, on all channels," confesses Kata Nyitrai, a former producer at M1 between 1990 and 2017, when she was fired for violating an order. Prime Minister Péter Magyar entrusted the Minister of Culture,... The article Journalists reveal the political capture of Hungarian public media first appeared in The Fifth Power.
In its working paper, which was also sent to Media1, the Media Forum Association proposes a review of public media, a reduction in state advertising, a new media authority, and the exemption of online and print media from regulatory supervision, but it also mentions the expansion of the 1% personal income tax subsidy system.
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