{"id":3780,"date":"2022-03-25T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/un-raport-al-ipi-despre-starea-presei-in-ajunul-alegerilor-din-ungaria-arata-cum-guvernarea-fidesz-a-reusit-sa-captureze-sistemul-mediatic-in-tara\/"},"modified":"2022-04-08T16:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:05:15","slug":"un-raport-al-ipi-despre-starea-presei-in-ajunul-alegerilor-din-ungaria-arata-cum-guvernarea-fidesz-a-reusit-sa-captureze-sistemul-mediatic-in-tara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/un-raport-al-ipi-despre-starea-presei-in-ajunul-alegerilor-din-ungaria-arata-cum-guvernarea-fidesz-a-reusit-sa-captureze-sistemul-mediatic-in-tara\/","title":{"rendered":"An IPI report on the state of the press ahead of the election in Hungary shows how the Fidesz government managed to \u201ccapture\u201d the country\u2019s media system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ahead of the 2022 general election, Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u2019s Fidesz government continued to \u201csystematically erode media pluralism\u201d, \u201cmanipulate the market to further entrench a dominant pro-government narrative\u201d, and silence independent media \u2013 these are some of the main findings of a new report by the International Press Institute (IPI). The document<\/a> was released on March 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors of the report claim that the Hungarian Fidesz party has managed to reach an \u201cunprecedented\u201d level of political control over the country\u2019s media ecosystem in the European Union. \u201cThis process has involved the coordinated exploitation of legal, regulatory and economic power to gain control over public media, concentrate private media in the hands of allies, and distort the market to the detriment of independent journalism,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media researchers claim that the \u201cmedia capture\u201d has been achieved through state-dependent businesses and oligarchs close to the prime minister who have acquired many of the major television, radio, and print media. In many cases, these outlets were bought from foreign owners and multinationals who left the country. \u201cThese acquisitions were frequently facilitated by politically driven regulatory decisions and loans from state-controlled banks. Many media brought under Hungarian ownership were either converted into pro-Orb\u00e1n mouthpieces or closed,\u201d the report also says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors of the document found that pro-government outlets are supported financially by exorbitantly large state advertising budgets and that the media market has been distorted because of this. According to the researchers, pro-government media outlets continue to receive these financial resources, while critical journalists suffer from lack of funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the research, the Fidesz-appointed media regulator has played a special role in this sense, having used its power \u201cto arbitrarily block and deny broadcast licenses, forcing critical voices such as Klubr\u00e1di\u00f3 off the airwaves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors recommend that measures be taken in Hungary to stop the above-mentioned practices on the media market, to stop abuses with public advertising, and to depoliticize the regulatory bodies. They note that Hungary has so far faced no major repercussions from the EU for its \u201csystematic erosion of media pluralism and freedom.\u201d \u201cThis points to an urgent need for additional safeguards within the European Union\u2019s democratic architecture and a strong Media Freedom Act to help protect independent journalism within member states and defend core EU values,\u201d the report concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of the 2022 general election, Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u2019s Fidesz government continued to \u201csystematically erode media pluralism\u201d, \u201cmanipulate the market to further entrench a dominant pro-government narrative\u201d, and silence independent media \u2013 these are some of the main findings of a new report by the International Press Institute (IPI). The document was released on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ungaria.png",1100,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ungaria-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ungaria-300x171.png",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ungaria-768x438.png",768,438,true],"large":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ungaria-1024x585.png",1024,585,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ungaria.png",1100,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ungaria.png",1100,628,false],"jannah-image-small":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ungaria-220x150.png",220,150,true],"jannah-image-large":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ungaria-390x220.png",390,220,true],"jannah-image-post":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ungaria-780x470.png",780,470,true],"awsm_team":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ungaria-500x500.png",500,500,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"DISABLED Gancev Vasile","author_link":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/author\/vgancev\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Ahead of the 2022 general election, Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u2019s Fidesz government continued to \u201csystematically erode media pluralism\u201d, \u201cmanipulate the market to further entrench a dominant pro-government narrative\u201d, and silence independent media \u2013 these are some of the main findings of a new report by the International Press Institute (IPI). The document was released on…","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}