Jobbik MEP Gyöngyösi:欧洲公共媒体打击民粹主义政权

Jobbik欧洲议会议员马尔顿 · 江杰西的讲话:

在本文中,这位政治家主张建立一个新的、独立的欧洲媒体机构,以打击民粹主义政客压制可能的反对渠道并宣传民粹主义宣传新闻的趋势。

议(匈牙利、波兰和斯洛文尼亚)媒体情况的辩论是欧洲议会最近一次全体会议议程上宣传最多的项目之一,这并不奇怪,因为欧洲民主政治力量多年来一直试图应对民粹主义政客散布假新闻和阴谋论所带来的挑战。

这个问题不能再被掩盖,因为正如全体辩论所表明的那样,受影响国家的数量正在增加:即使是斯洛文尼亚现在也是”雷达”上的”“”。

Gyöngyösi says there are two main areas that definitely needs to be mentioned when talking about the situation of the media in the 21st century. The first issue, which was also raised in the plenary session, is the authoritarian-leaning governments’ actions against the freedom of speech and media pluralism. As Gyöngyösi pointed out in his speech, Hungary is probably in the gravest situation within the EU in this regard as the Orbán regime’s repeated attacks have almost completely liquidated the independent media during Fidesz’ now 11-year-long rule. The process started by reorganizing the Media Council back in the early 2010s. Since then, Orbán’s Fidesz has been the only party to delegate members into this body. The next step was the occupation of the state-run public media, reducing it to a mouthpiece for Fidesz. Since 2016, it has been common knowledge in Hungary that the public media conveys nothing but Fidesz’ views and it never gives voice to any opposition speaker or political dissenter. In fact, the supposedly public service media often conducts smear campaigns against opposition politicians, regularly using discriminatory and hatemongering remarks in its programmes. However, it was not enough, the process did not stop there: in the meantime, Fidesz took control of all regional newspapers, which serve as the primary source of information for Hungary’s rural population. After that, they began to steamroll all opposition newspapers through politically motivated operations disguised as business transactions with their strawmen. The most widely publicized operation was the liquidation of Népszabadság, the leading leftist-liberal daily paper, but the centre-right Magyar Nemzet, the former opinion shaper suffered an only slightly better fate: the entire editorial staff was replaced and the old newspaper logo is now attached to an inciting outlet that releases fake news. Albeit to a lesser extent, but the same happened to Index, Hungary’s leading online news portal. The opposition Klub Rádió was silenced through administrative measures.