Television channel M1 and radio station Kossuth Radio, which were considered pro-government during Viktor Orbán’s 16-year tenure, have stopped regular programming since the afternoon. On M1, a black screen displayed the message: “The media cannot lie. We apologize for having done so for years.”
New Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced that the stations would resume operations under new management but would not broadcast news for now. Kossuth Radio is temporarily playing only the music program of a partner station. Magyar wrote on Facebook of a “historic day”: “Today, the broadcasting of propaganda on public media platforms ends.”
Magyar won the parliamentary election in April with his Tisza party, partly on a promise to reform the media landscape and restore the independence of state media. Orbán, meanwhile, criticized the measures as “another step of Tisza tyranny.”
Source: www.zeit.de
