Massive media conglomerate created on the Right
December 1st, 2018Liberal commentators think that the centralization of pro-government media outlets will further strengthen the government’s dominance over public opinion.
On Wednesday, the Central European Press and Media Foundation announced that it had ‘acquired’ several leading pro-government media outlets – all donated for free by their owners. The portfolio transferred to the media holding includes dailies, radio stations, magazines, online media outlets as well as news television channels.
On Index, Dávid Klug and Attila Varga think that the centralization of pro-government media outlets will further strengthen government dominance over the media landscape. The liberal commentators suspect that the task of the acquired media outlets will be to spread what they label ‘government propaganda’ and further homogenize public opinion. Klug and Varga lambast the Media Authority and the Hungarian Competition (Anti-trust) Authority for not intervening to prevent the deal.