Journalists in the Hungarian press expressed shock after a media group was seen as close to the Party of the National Leader Viktor Onbán’s Party Viktore’s Party AroLán’s Party Viktors Cart Swiss.
The purchase, which comes as Hungeriary Gears Up for crucial elections next year where ANBÁN faces an unprecedented attempt to increase the government’s influence on the media.
A group of PRO-OR-ORSEDIA, Indemedia, said on Friday that it bought a collection of Hungarian titles from advertising, a popular board with three million news readers per month.
Outgoing editorial editor-in-chief Ivan Zsolt nagy, said on Monday that he and another senior manager came from a “Mutual Agreement” with the new owner.
They were hired seven months ago to renew the outbreak, “focusing not on sensationalism but on interesting stories, and the economy, and culture, and culture, told AFP.
Blikk staff said they were shocked. “I almost had a heart attack when I heard the announcement,” said a reporter, who asked to remain anonymous. “To me, this is morally unacceptable.”
Blikk announced a new editor-in-chief, Balázs Kolossváry.
Many journalists who decide to stay are in a difficult position because there are not many other outlets left at their disposal. Over the past 15 years Orbán has used a burgeoning pro-Government media scene to boost his image and polls.
While the main media transactions are related to the post-election or a quiet political period, the purchase of Hungary Hungary comes less than six months before the general election in April. Blikk is seen as a prime target for Onbán and his party at a time when polls are showing they have a real player for the first time in a decade.
The leader of the opposition, Péter Magyar, whose respect and freedom, or Tisza, the campaign to face the democracies “he focused on Orbán’s democracy.
He criticized the ringing of the Hungary deal, saying it represented another attempt by Orbán to cement his control over media outlets Media Outlets Media Outlets.
Although Blikk is a tabloid, famous for gossip and over the top headlines, in the last few years it has also published many pieces of what is considered corruption. Irbán, director of the Mérték Media Monitor Watsess Organization, said that its readers are “very important to Fidesz”.
“Blikk is the most read daily newspaper in Hungary, a market leader,” said Urbán. “Its online site has been surprisingly popular in recent years, being the fourth most read online site in Hungary. When propaganda appears in widely read and popular media, there is an impact on the public.”
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For more than a decade now Hungary has served as a model for other “illiberal democracies” around the world. Donald Trump and his allies have long been admired in Orbán’s Hungary though The advent of press freedom freedom rankings. In 2022, Orbán told a conference of US conservatives, CPAC, that the path to power “has its own media”.
In 2010 Orbán’s government passed a law that declared the government’s control of the main Media regulator and put the State Broadcaster in the hands of loyalists.
Indemedia is 50% owned by Miklós of Vaslzily, a pro-government businessman who is also the CEO of a PRO-GOVICE PRIVATION PRIVATION Channel, TV2.
In a statement, the other co-owner of Indemiania and CEO, Gárobor Ziegler, said: “By acquiring the media trees with a strong brands of a factor brands of a factor brands an important role in the Hungarian Media Landscape.”
Ringier said in a statement sent to AFP over the weekend that the decision to sell was “based solely on strategic economic considerations and to focus on our core digital activity in Hungary”.
A government spokesman has been reached for comment.