Updated 17.48 | Published 17.26
Two Hungarian public service media stopped their news broadcasts on Tuesday. It is part of Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s work to clean up after representative Viktor Orbán.
“A historic day. Today marks the end of propaganda broadcasts on public service platforms,” Magyar, whose Tisza party won the parliamentary elections in April, wrote on Facebook.
Radio station Kossuth and television channel M1 had suspended their broadcasts on Tuesday afternoon.
“Public service should not lie. We are sorry that we have done it for so long,” read a message in the box from M1.
Hungary’s new government has promised a freer media landscape in the country. The state media were overthrown during Orbán’s 16 years in power into government-loyal bodies.
