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Tag Archives: media
Fighting propaganda in the villages
An A4 sheet of paper folded in two. That is what people in villages get from the real news. Continue reading
Orbánist media announces that Hungarian media is totally free – on 18 identical front pages
Orbán’s farcical efforts to prove that the media is free make him look like an out-of-touch autocrat. Continue reading
Who writes the best smear about the opposition? It doesn’t have to be true
Orbánist media school forgets to mention journalistic standards in its curriculum. Continue reading
Alas, the Nationalist Internationale is postponed again – but they gave us two memorable moments of media history
“Journalist provoking by asking questions” Continue reading
Pettiness Galore
The crackdown on independent media has reached the stage of gleeful micromanagement and the final stab. Continue reading
Deutsche Welle starts Hungarian language service
After the US has restarted Radio Free Europe’s Hungarian language edition, the German Deutsche Welle also announced to launch Hungarian news services, quoting concerns about media pluralism in the country. Continue reading
The last non-Orbánist radio channel is shut down
Klubrádió has been the last radio that did not belong to the Orbánist media stable. It has been shut down. Continue reading
Government to squeeze out Tesco, Aldi, Spar, Lidl and Auchan
Squeezing out foreign-owned retail chains is in the ten-year-plan of the government Continue reading
24.hu, the last independent news portal with universal coverage, is now in Orbánists’ crosshairs
“they would like to have Russia-style controlled media landscape” Continue reading
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