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Concerned about Hungary’s press freedom? Consider this
While journalists feel less and less safe in Western Europe, George Soros’s favorite watchdog keeps worrying about Hungarian press freedom. It’s a joke.
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Foreign Minister comments on hypocrisy around freedom of press and opinion
“The big hypocrisy of press freedom and freedom of expression is gradually being revealed for what it is," the foreign minister said.
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Hungarian government committed to upholding press freedom
Gergely Gulyás underlined the importance of a diverse media landscape, saying that he believed Hungary had greater media diversity than western European countries.
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They did it again: International media watchdog publishes lopsided report on Hungarian media, gets facts wrong
The International Press Institute, a media watchdog, is concerned about Hungary’s press freedom – again. Of course they are, because they talked exclusively to left-liberal sources. Their report contains nothing...
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Spain is imposing strict controls on information, but where’s the outcry?
Press is reporting today that the government of Spain will impose controls on information distributed to the public. The European Post writes that the country’s security forces have announced their intention to control public information “in order to minimize this critical climate aimed at the government’s action.”
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Shocker! Soros-funded international coalition says Hungary’s press freedom in danger
“Hungary dismantles media freedom and pluralism,” reads the sensational title of a report published today by an “international coalition” of seven “independent” organizations.
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What’s this if not the US interfering in Hungarian elections and politics?
“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.
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Hungary summons US chargé d’affaires over plans to fund local media outlets in Hungary
The foreign ministry considers the move a political “intervention” ahead of next year’s general election
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Hungary's internet deemed "free", says Freedom House
Freedom House said that the internet in Hungary remained relatively free and “the government does not engage in any politically motivated blocking or filtering of online content”
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That moment when a US diplomat wonders if there is press freedom in Hungary, and an RTL Klub producer has the answer
Earlier this week, the chargé d’affaires of the US Embassy in Budapest delivered remarks on the freedom of the press. The remarks garnered a lot of attention not least because of the senior US diplomat’s very pointed criticisms and assertion that “negative trends are continuing” in the sphere of press freedom in Hungary.
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Pushing back on fake news
Some media outlets seem to think that their proper role is not simply to report the news but to exert influence over public life by driving a political agenda. Perhaps all media organizations reflect a bias, but when a political agenda so dominates the media’s decision about what to cover and how to cover it that it completely undermines all objectivity and journalistic integrity, then we have a problem.
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Hungarian government responds to Freedom House attack
Press freedom is fully respected in Hungary; in the Hungarian press every shade of political opinion may appear. In addition, the citizens of Hungary exercise their democratic rights in free elections