The fourth week of the campaign period has also concluded now. RTL’s news show is still the only one characterised by an effort to present various party platforms and to offer an objective and balanced coverage of the campaign. The public service television news show, which has been reduced to the role of a propaganda […]
In the following, we will summarise how the popular Krónika news show, which airs at noon every day on the public service station Kossuth Rádió, reports about Russia’s war on Ukraine. Krónika is primarily popular among elderly listeners. Since this age group is less likely to use the internet, it is especially vital to keep […]
Numerous articles by journalists have looked at the Hungarian Television’s (that is the public service television channels) reports on the war and its take on the news as it emerges from this coverage. Let us take a look at what a statistical analysis reveals about the six hours of news footage from the news shows […]
As part of our broader analysis of how the election campaign is covered in the television news, it seemed evident that we should examine how the Hungarian news shows we tracked have informed the public on the issue since the launch of the Russian attack on Ukraine. In our research we collected and analysed those […]
The attack on Ukraine has led to a widespread outrage in Hungary. However, the deep polarisation that divides Hungarian society was also manifest in the public reactions to the war. Most people unequivocally condemn the Russian aggression and profess solidarity with Ukraine, and as the first refugees began to arrive, both civil society and the […]
Through its analyses of the campaigns of the past few years, Mérték Media Monitor wishes to help individual voters and the institutions which are invested in the successful conduct of the election in understanding whether the prevailing news coverage is balanced, as well as to help orient those who seek to be properly informed during […]
This paper provides an overview of how the Hungarian media system hasevolved since 2010. This long decade fundamentally changed the Hungarian public sphere by the construction of the illiberal state and themove away from the democratic values of the European Union. It is particularly striking that the transformation of the media system occurred at several […]
The Sources of Political Information in Hungary Ever since 2013, Mérték Media Monitor has been performing recurring surveys to learn about the media consumption and information patterns of the Hungarian public (the results of the previous surveys are available on our website at mertek.eu, under the heading Media Freedom). All our surveys were conducted in […]
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In early April, the Hungarian public media’s online news site, hirado.hu, introduced a fake news monitoring series. Two months have passed since the series was first launched, and this allows for sufficient time to take a detailed look at the techniques being deployed by the authors and editors of the series, how they try to […]