How Hungarian pro-government media reports on war in Ukraine: twenty months, a thousand headlines and sixty-two world wars
A closer look at the breaking news section of the biggest Hungarian pro-government news outlet paints a chilling picture of the kind of press the government is hoping to see in the country – all this while it prepares an assault on the independent press citing “the safeguarding of the country’s sovereignty”.
While the Hungarian government is preparing an assault on independent news outlets on the grounds of "safeguarding sovereignty", a closer examination of the headlines in the breaking news section of Origo (the biggest government-friendly news portal in Hungary) paints a chilling picture of the kind of press the Hungarian government would like to see in the country. After analysing more than 1,000 Origo headlines, here's what we have found in the parallel universe of pro-government media.
