Media News - Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Hungary’s parliament passes contentious new media law amid protests
Hungary's parliament approved a contentious new law
Tuesday that will greatly expand the state's power to monitor and
penalize private media, drawing protests from opposition parties and
civil society. The measure, passed with the votes of the governing centre-right Fidesz
party, empowers a recently created new authority, the Media Council, to
issue fines for printed, electronic and online media if it determines
that coverage is unbalanced, infringes upon human dignity, offends
common morals, or fails to cover events of public interest.
Fines may reach HUF 200m (USD 950,000) for nationwide television
channels, HUF 25m (USD 119,000) for nationwide daily newspapers
and Internet news portals, and HUF 10m (USD 48,000) for weekly
and monthly publications. The law, slated to take effect Jan. 1, also creates a new institution
under the supervision of the Media Council that will formally take over
almost all employees of Hungary's state-run television channels, radio
stations, as well as state newswire MTI. News production will also be
centralized across public media.
(AP)
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