The end of Magyar Nemzet
April 10 marked another dark day for media freedom in Hungary. One of the country’s most prestigious dailies, Magyar Nemzet, is being shut down, and Lánchíd Rádió will fall silent, […]
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Mérték Media Ombudsman: How did the online media present Soros’ response to the government’s claims about the “Soros Plan”?
The government held a so-called national consultation to find out what the Hungarian public thinks about the “Soros Plan.” In a statement released on 20 November 2017, George Soros denied […]
Mérték Media Ombudsman – The Marton case in the online media
On 14 October 2017 the actress Lilla Sárosdi recounted in a public Facebook post how twenty years earlier a “prominent [theatre] director” had demanded that she perform oral sex on […]
Mérték Media Ombudsman – How the media reacted to Ukrainian language law
On 5 September 2017 the Ukrainian parliament adopted a new education law. Among other things, the act specifies that the language of instruction in schools must be the national language, […]
Mérték Media Ombudsman – Neo-Nazi violence in the US
On 12 August 2017, a far-right rally — the organisers of which also included neo-Nazi groups – was held in the US city of Charlottesville, Virginia, which resulted in violent […]
State advertising 2006-2017
Mérték Média Monitor has been analysing the changes in state advertising spending for years. Our regularly published Soft Censorship report reviews the developments of the foregoing year, but it is […]
Mérték Media Ombudsman – The media echo of the BKK hack
On 13 July 2017, the Budapest Transport Authority (abbreviated as BKK in Hungarian) launched a new system for the online sale of public transportation tickets. Within hours, users had discovered […]
Mérték Media Ombudsman – The media echo of the NGO law amendment
On 13 June 2017 the National Assembly adopted the Act on the Transparency of Organisations Receiving Foreign Funds. Our analysis seeks to examine whether the online media were helpful in […]
AN ILLIBERAL STATE IN THE HEART OF EUROPE
Between 2010 and 2014, an ‘illiberal state’ was being built in Hungary. In line with prime minister’s announcement on the subject, from 2014 we have been offered a perspective on […]
Liberty, diversity, autonomy
It isn’t particularly difficult or far-fetched to see the parallels between the government’s respective efforts at shutting down CEU, squeezing NGOs, and eliminating press freedom. Universities, NGOs and free media […]