Drew Leifheit
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11 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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If you tuned in to Hungarian state TV's M1 this afternoon, you got a blank screen and a message.
Public media should not lie.
We apologize for doing so for years.
The shakeup didn't stop there.
State news radio went quiet too, replaced by classical music.
Top station executives and several anchors were fired.
One was even escorted out of the building.
M1 was the flagship of government propaganda under former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose party lost power last spring.
Hungary's new Prime Minister, Petar Magyar, had promised on the campaign trail to make the broadcaster independent.
There'll be an interim period first, then state media's new leadership will be chosen through a competitive process.
For NPR News, I'm Drew Leifheit in Budapest.
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