Daniel Papp presented the situation and operations of Hungary’s public service media to the EC delegation which was fact-finding for its 2023 rule-of-law report.
A survey found that an overwhelming majority of Hungarians use the internet on a daily basis and consider it important to be able to comment on matters of public interest.
A Fidesz MEP has slammed a debate held in the European Parliament on Hungarian influence in Slovenian and North Macedonian media as a “smear campaign” against Hungary.
Éva Tafferner, the authority’s communications director, said the campaign warns of the dangers of news-sharing as well as the risks of superficial reading.
The US State Department said Hungary’s media players are active and express a wide range of views.
A five-part series recently featured on German public radio Deutschlandfunk serves up a textbook example of a biased, liberal media incapable of reporting another side of the story.
The head of the PM’s Office has highlighted that the fall of communism in 1989 has not been sufficiently addressed in art, therefore 21st-century media will be “indispensable” in helping to revive the memories of the events that led to the regime change.
And how they’ve suckered the German press
“Paid for by the taxpayers of the United States of America.” This would be the disclaimer that you might see on certain publications, if the US State Department were to begin handing out money next year, as it announced earlier this week, to support “independent” media outlets in Hungary.
The foreign ministry considers the move a political “intervention” ahead of next year’s general election
There’s no such thing as a presumption of innocence when it comes to charges of corruption and allegations of misuse of EU funds in Hungary – at least for much of the media. Their negative bias compromises their journalistic integrity, and when news and information counters their narrative, they simply ignore it.
In the land where Zionism was born, Hungary, PM Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the daily threats to his country’s existence and Europe’s relationship with Israel, quoting French President Macron on anti-Zionism being the new anti-Semitism. He thanked PM Orbán for opposing this anti-Semitism by standing up for Israel in international forums.
The Visegrad Group consists of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia and the radio network will broadcast in their respective languages