Distrust in authority is the fundamental reason for low vaccination rates across eastern Europe. But we shouldn’t think of anti-science as the expression of mere ignorance, nor primarily as a grass-roots movement. Péter Krekó on Gagarin, the Eurozine podcast. Eurozine · Learning to live with...
Journalism is steadily becoming less and less liveable, due to structural problems and political interference. From heroic poses to varying degrees of denial, each professional develops their own individual strategies to cope with sustained pressure. Editorial for Eurozine.
Since his return to power in 2010, Viktor Orbán has meticulously unravelled the rule of law and media pluralism, while holding the EU at bay. A short history of a decade’s attacks on the free press in Hungary. An article for the journal Osteuropa.
Yet another independent outlet is slain in Hungary: Klubrádió just lost its broadcast license, resuming a decade-long campaign to silence the channel. Journalists march on, hoping for a lengthy legal battle to do them justice in the end. They have accommodated pressure, but their defiance comes...
Media professionals often engage in a collective hysteria. They complain about their loss of authority, signalling a deep unwillingness to take responsibility for our trade’s failures and, often, complicity. And yet, the ‘post-truth era’ is not a death toll of journalism, but the...
Viktor Orbán has won a third successive landslide victory in Hungary. A refashioned electoral system helped him return to power, but a fragmented and incompetent opposition has paved his way for over eight years now, argues Réka Kinga Papp for Eurozine. This article was written for and...
Kilenc grafikon a kormánymédia túlsúlyáról – így érvényesül a sokszínű tájékoztatás elve Magyarországon
The Hungarian Spectrum published on this rather (de)pressing matter. A sad but very important read.
A Collins Dictionary az álhíreket választotta az év kifejezésének. A ‘fake news’ lehet bunkósbot, amivel a nyilvánosság szereplői egymást ütlegelik; egy morális pánik, amelyet a kivételezett pozíciójukat féltő médiamunkások keltenek; ugyanakkor kortünet, amely mögött valós problémák...
Egyre kevesebb a független médium, de ezek is egyre többen fordulnak az olvasóikhoz támogatásért. Így a Kettős Mérce is, amely nyolc év blogformátum után 2017 október 23-a óta önálló portálként működik, és egyelőre kizárólag lakossági adományokból működik. Miért? És legfőként: MIBŰ?!!