Orbán: government falsely accused of having eliminated media plurality
The press has lost its role of keeping the public informed and instead is turning into a political player amid today’s technology-driven media landscape, a government official told an international conference on Thursday.
Hungary’s right-wing government “is often falsely accused” of having eliminated media plurality, the free press and the diversity of opinion, Balázs Orbán told the conference on freedom of expression organised by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), adding, however, that “nothing could be further from the truth”.
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“grim picture of Hungary depicted mainly by the left-liberal wing”
was a “typical symptom of the press’s growing political role”.
As regards the rise of online media, Orbán said that though technology made people’s lives easier, it also posed challenges. Advances in technology, he said “have led to the rise of a new intellectual fashion, and liberalism has surrendered to this intellectual headwind”.
He said progressive
liberals believed it was their duty to “enlighten” people,
and the media’s job was to “represent the liberal political agenda rather than to provide credible reporting and preserve the diversity of opinion”.
Now that the new liberal media “has clearly involved itself in political and ideological battles”, it has become the job of “the few remaining classical liberal media outlets and conservative media” to keep the public informed and “enforce the sanctity of news”, Orbán said.
Now that the new liberal media “has clearly involved itself in political and ideological battles”, it has become the job of “the few remaining classical liberal media outlets and conservative media” to keep the public informed and “enforce the sanctity of news”, Orbán said.
Those who are accused of something always deny it. That does not mean that it is not true.
…this joke has worn thin many years ago…
Time to come up for the liberal liars with a supposed new crime committed by Hungary..
Glad you have joined us, mariavontheresa, what’s the weather like in Canada, where you live?
Orbán is 100% right.
Hungary is a free country. The West is not free.
Hungary has press freedom. The West doesn’t have press freedom.
Hungarians well remember that the communists always accused others of their own crimes.
The far-left, globalist, Marxist EU dictators are the same as Stalin’s communists. All rotten liars.
“The Lie” just doesn’t get it.
It is far better to have a patriotic Hungarian posting from Canada than a Hungarian hater posting from Hungary.
Hungarian that escaped communist tyranny and settled in America or Canada have never given-up on Hungary and always acted in the best interest of Hungarian people.
Unfortunately, we have many Hungarian haters that live amongst us and harm us.