By Fábián Tamás – Telex.hu (*) Over the past few weeks, the state of Hungary’s media has become the focus of intense public debate both domestically and across Europe. After the exclusively Fidesz-chaired Media Council revoked the oppositional Klubrádió’s frequency for…
By !!444 InsightHungary!!! (*) Hungary and Poland on Thursday launched a challenge with the European Court of Justice over a so-called rule of law mechanism in the European Union’s budget that would link payment of EU funds to upholding of…
By Robert Lipsyte* – TomDispatch As Do Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death The Four Horsemen of our media apocalypse — Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and Donald Trump — have ridden roughshod over us this past half-century leaving their hoofprints on our politics, our…
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post Three-quarters of the people on earth live in countries where freedom is declining. That’s one of the grim takeaways in an annual report produced by Freedom House, the Washington-based pro-democracy think tank and watchdog. This year’s…
By Peter Molnar* – The Nation The government shut down a station that connected many listeners—particularly the elderly—to their country and the world When the faithful listeners to Klubrádió, a talk radio station that has been a beacon of free speech in Hungary, tuned in…
Marina Hyde* – The Guardian This is about more than Facebook and news – it’s about the pursuit of power in a world where companies are stronger than countries You can say Mark Zuckerberg puts you in mind of a lot of things. An efit of a man police would like to speak to in…
By Roberto Savio* In a robustly entertaining – and thoroughly informative – book on the lighter side of the United Nations, Thalif Deen, a former UN Bureau Chief and Regional Director for Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency, has just published a book titled “No Comment –…
Organizations for the defense of freedom of expression, human rights institutions, journalists’ unions and reference media all over the world have shown growing concern about the autocratic decisions of the supposedly democratic governments of Hungary and Poland due to the…
By Jeet Heer* -The Nation Trump’s two impeachments are just the start of a long struggle to turn the former president into a pariah. The second impeachment of Donald Trump was an improvement, but only a partial and halting one, over the first impeachment.
York* – The Guardian Twitter and Facebook need to be more transparent about how they choose who gets censored The enforcement of policies on content moderation by popular social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, is a continuously contentious topic. Particularly so…
