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They would contact me anywhere, I don’t want to lose my job
– this was the reason why a former member of the public media spoke anonymously about Free Europe’s editorial practice on M1.
The Index had previously written that recordings of the institution had been leaked in which management made it clear that the Orbán government was interested in writing the news and reports.
About the ominous recording, Balázs Bende, head of the foreign media cabinet of the public media, said that at MTVA, as he himself said, “they do not support the opposition coalition,” he made it clear that anyone who cannot write in agreement with the guidelines may be terminated.
Even in the recordings you can hear Zsolt Németh, news director, who practically confirmed how to improve even more with an interviewee close to the government, as he says “damn”, that is, to strengthen the communication of the government.
A former public television co-worker has now spoken to Free Europe that there is no specific event to be linked to when the channel became the mouthpiece for government communication. In his words, “It’s like when you put a frog in a pot full of cold water and turn it on, it cooks pretty slow.”
On the other hand, according to him, it became clear that when the Hungarian Radio and Duna TV merged, professionalism ceased to be authoritarian. From that moment on, they kept saying the same thing on Kossuth Radio, the Danube and the M1 newscast.
Former public media said that professionals were constantly fired and given opportunities that, for example, the microphone committee would never have allowed to broadcast. These people were considered “politically sound”, not necessarily informed, but they took the job for much more money.
He also noted that under the new leadership, it became clear that they wanted to make the NER channel compatible, so all gay presenters were removed from the screen.
Until 2015 public media It was managed from 80,500 million HUF, by 2021 it will have a budget of 117,700 million HUF.
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