Press watchdog RSF puts Hungarian PM Orban on 'predators' list

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Press watchdog puts Hungarian PM Orban on ‘predators’ list

July 5, 2021

PARIS (AP) — Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders has put Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on its list of “predators,” the first time a Western European leader has been placed in the lineup of heads of state or government who “crack down massively” on press freedom.

The list published Monday includes 37 leaders.

Two women, the prime minister of Bangladesh and the Hong Kong’s administrative chief, also were added to the list, as well as Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This was the first time in five years that the watchdog, known by its French initials RSF, has published its press freedom predator’s list.

The report said Orban “has steadily and effectively undermined media pluralism and independence since being returned to power in 2010” by using “varied predatory techniques.”

“The methods may be subtle or brazen, but they are always efficient,” the report said, citing control over 80% of the media via purchases by oligarchs close to Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party. Private media in Hungary are discriminated against in access to information and government advertising and denigrated as purveyors of “fake news,” the report said.

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[ShazamIam]

1. Thanks OP, I didn't know of that group, and I want to ask if anyone has noticed articles over the

last year or so to discredit journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as if to see, he was this and that and therefore it was ok to murder him or something?
Articles like this, catering to the special market. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9757713/Jamal-Khashoggi-juggling-secret-wife-fiancee-months-death.html