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The killing of Népszabadság, Hungary’s biggest opposition paper
- bayareanative 7y agoThe fourth estate is not just under attack, it's virtually abandoned. Only sustainably non-profit, worker-owned and subscriber-funded news can do the job, because ad-supported journalism leads to coziness with political/economic power and corporate advertisers.
- chpatrick 7y agoIn Hungary's case the threat is a massive state-funded propaganda machine pretending to be the press. How do you fight against that, especially if no one wants to pay for subscriptions?
- life_is_shor 7y agoMost western outlets are equally biased and controlled by tight networks. Yet nobody seems to pay attention to it?