Blinkered in Budapest – government friendly media gang up to control media markets
A commentary by Pal Daniel Reyni
It only took a few hours to create the biggest ever media conglomerate in the history of free Hungarian media. On 28th November 2018, most media owners who support the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party simultaneously gifted (!) all their assets to a newly-formed foundation, led by Gábor Liszkay.
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He is the CEO of a pro-goverment media company and a longtime ally of Orbán. The Board of Trustees has three more members, of which one is a former (István Varga) and another is a current Fidesz MP (István Bajkai). Bajkai is…
