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“Democracy and Human Rights at Stake in Hungary”: The Report of the Norwegian...
Index published an interview today with Bjørb Engesland, chairman of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC). The occasion for the interview was the appearance of the NHC’s second report on Hungary. The...
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Odds and ends from Hungary: A court case, a new poll, and a successful country
Again, there are too many interesting topics and I don’t know which one to pick. So I decided to cover as many as I have space for without making the post too long. First, I received a short note from...
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Listening to Hungarian government propaganda: MTV and MR
Yesterday a newcomer to this blog posted a comment in which he said that he refuses to believe news reports that are broadcast on Klubrádió. In this particular instance, that 350,000 Hungarians work...
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Growing troubles in opposition circles
It was only a few days ago that the democratic opposition’s mass rally ended with a protest from the crowd itself–a demand for unity and the resultant quasi demonstration against Attila Mesterházy,...
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Rearrangement on the Hungarian left? It looks like it
Although there are many topics we could discuss today, I would like to return to party politics. I’m interested in the analysis of intra-party developments because of my fascination with personalities...
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Two polls, two different results, and disappointing opposition politicians
In the last couple of days the results of two new public opinion polls on party preferences appeared: Ipsos on November 18 and Medián today. According to Ipsos, Fidesz-KDNP and LMP gained and the left...
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Mária Vásárhelyi on the “media octopus” in Hungary
Yesterday I talked about the state of the Hungarian media. In today’s Galamus, Zsófia Mihancsik, who is a very good journalist, suggested to her colleagues that it would be a good idea if they learned...
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No free and plural media in Hungary? The government’s answer to Neelie Kroes
The reaction to Viktor Orbán’s speech a week ago has been uniformly negative. Even the conservative Wall Street Journal agreed with the liberal New York Times that Orbán’s vision of the future of...
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The Hungarian media scene is still in flux
Although the Hungarian government’s only concern of late seems to be how to keep asylum seekers out of the country, I don’t want to succumb to the same tunnel vision. And so today I’m turning to the...
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Political action and the critical mass
For over a week György Bolgár has been conducting a series of conversations with politicians, political commentators, and regular listeners on his popular “Let’s Talk It Over!” call-in show on...
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The Orbán government once again tries to silence Klubrádió
In preparation for writing today’s piece on the latest ill treatment of Klubrádió by the Orbán regime, I went in search of previous Hungarian Spectrum articles detailing the agony of the 80-member team...
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News release from Klubrádió Today the Hungarian media authority has published a statement announcing the cancellation of the broadcasting contract of FM station Klubrádió from February next year....
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Klubrádió: Conspiracy Theory?
The fate of the sole remaining independent radio station, which in the last ten years could serve only Budapest, is hanging in the balance. The world must know about this latest calumny perpetrated by...
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Zoltán Hariss/Harris, Klubrádió, and the Institute of Political History
Additional information on Zoltán Hariss/Harris, father of Andy Harris Today I will first return briefly to the topic of Congressman Andy Harris’s Hungarian roots. Such a revisit is especially timely...
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The Orbán regime had enough of the government-critical Klubrádió
In March 2013, after three years of constant fear of shuttering, Klubrádió, Hungary’s only independent radio station, was saved thanks to international pressure. At that time, the station’s management...
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The Orbán government under pressure from the West
In the last few days, I have collected seemingly unconnected pieces of news that may indicate some subtle or not so subtle changes in the Orbán government’s domestic and foreign policies. Let’s start...
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Klubrádió: ask Alexa, not the Media Council
Our “Mutt,” in real life Béla Vizy, a senior software engineer, in his spare time created a new “skill” that enables Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, to broadcast live programing of...
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SZFE’s “Emergency Exit” and its lessons for Viktor Orbán
Yesterday, in writing about three of the most outrageous recipients of the dozens of awards Fidesz handed out to its favorites, I touched on the generosity of the Orbán government when it came to...
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ATV shows its true colors in the Klubrádió case
It was a month ago that I reported that, as predicted, Klubrádió’s tender was declared to be invalid, presumably because “it hasn’t met the prescriptions of the tender.” This decision didn’t come as a...
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