Al Jazeera: PM Orbán’s grip on the Hungarian public media is ever tightening
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Interestingly, the latest program of Al Jazeera’s Listening Post was concerned with Hungary – according to index.hu. In fact, they broadcast today Guardian correspondent Daniel Nolan’s report on the Hungarian propaganda media. Al Jazeera concludes that PM Orbán wants all the Hungarian media. The program can be watched HERE, the second part concerning the Hungarian media starts from 13:43.
“It is full-time government propaganda”
“If the polls are to be believed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban could win his third consecutive election this April. Should that happen, the media there will have played a large part.” – starts the program. This is because the “Orbán-government has devoted considerable energy and resources to
restructuring the domestic media landscape in its favour.”
Al Jazeera clears that most of the Hungarian media is already in the hands of businessmen close to the PM. For example, we wrote HERE about Lőrinc Mészáros, favourite entrepreneur of PM Orbán. In fact, his enrichment is quicker than Facebook-owner Zuckerberg’s, and he already owns all the regional newspapers together with a dozen of radio broadcasters and television channels. Furthermore, his portfolio extends every day.
Al Jazeera reports about the government’s anti-immigration and anti-Soros campaign, as well. According to media researcher Ágnes Urbán, the
pro-government state media only repeats the main messages of the ruling party.
Dániel Rényi, a journalist of 444.hu, added that the government has totally conquered “public media.” According to atlatszo.hu, since 2010 Orbán’s allies have bought 11 radio stations, 20 television channels and close to 500 print and online organisations. “However, state media remains a powerful megaphone” – according to Al Jazeera. The content creation is centralised – he added.
State media employee: the editor-in-chief is like a dictator
Al Jazeera managed to speak with two state media employees. They described “a lack of editorial independence and a climate of fear.” Thus, the TV-channel had to disguise their faces and their voices. One of them told that nobody could write anything bad about the government.
“If something is politically sensitive I get instructions.
Right! And all this from “Al-Jazeera”, the most trusted network media to terrorists. Yes, i have been told many times by my Muslim friends on how “Al-Jazeera” reports in English on way on how nice the white folk are, yet in Arabic they have their Imams saying “death to the infidel”, blah, blah blah. It’s really depends on which media you want to favor. Media of the west with never having anything good to day about the East, the Terrrorist network (A-J), or the national news. Each country has their National NEWS and out here in the west watching both, in both languages, i think i’ll stick with the Non-SOROS inspired, Hungarian National News (M1), Thank you!
I wonder who is paying the Al Jazeera yournaille????