After sixteen years in which the information system was captured, the new Tisza government is dismantling by law the media architecture built by Fidesz. The safeguards are there, but the method raises a decisive question: can a free press be born from the same instruments with which it was bent to power?
Hungary’s public media blackout: Magyar silences the propaganda, but follows Orbán’s playbook
After sixteen years in which the information system was captured, the new Tisza government is dismantling by law the media architecture built by Fidesz. The safeguards are there, but the method raises a decisive question: can a free press be born from the same instruments with which it was bent to power?
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