Hungary's public news broadcasts halted in bid to scrap Orban-era propaganda
- Hungary's main public television channel has halted news broadcasts, while a state-run radio station has been suspended altogether, in a bid to make its media "independent and trustworthy".
- The country's former prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who was ousted in April after 16 years in power, had tightly controlled state media.
- Reforms to media were a key campaign promise of Hungary's new Prime Minister Péter Magyar, who described the announcement as "the end of propaganda broadcasts".
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- Hungary's main public television channel has halted news broadcasts, while a state-run radio station has been suspended altogether, in a bid to make its media "independent and trustworthy".
- The country's former prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who was ousted in April after 16 years in power, had tightly controlled state media.
- Reforms to media were a key campaign promise of Hungary's new Prime Minister Péter Magyar, who described the announcement as "the end of propaganda broadcasts".
Sources: BBC News