[Spoznajte ideologické, historické a geopolitické základy vojny na Ukrajine a jej dôsledky pre Slovensko v knihe Ako Putin stratil Ukrajinu.]
The war in Ukraine is not a battle of good and evil, but a battle of evil and evil, Ukrainians still only have demands, they are nationalists, Zelenskyi is a clown and a puppet with dictatorial tendencies, Putin cannot be denied the truth in some cases. Such an image of the war in Ukraine may appear to the reader who reads and watches the Hungarian media in Slovakia financed by the Hungarian government.
For several weeks, Napunk, in cooperation with experts, researched and analyzed in detail the image of the war in Ukraine created by three news websites that have been operating stably for years with money from the Hungarian government. The result shows that pro-Russian positions, which are also represented by the government in Budapest, also appear intensively in the Hungarian media environment in Slovakia.
In the text you will read:
how state subsidies from Hungary changed the Hungarian media space in Slovakia; how Hungarian media supported from Hungary (Ma7, Felvidék.ma and Körkép.sk) are connected with politics; how these media portray the Ukrainian and Russian presidents; how they approach concepts like “special military operation”, peace/war advocates, wrong sanctions and anti-Hungarianism.
MEDIA OF THE HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT IN SLOVAKIA
The Hungarian media in Slovakia always struggled with the fact that their market was small and the Slovak media became more and more varied.
Two events brought greater change: one of them was the expansion of the Internet, thanks to which Hungarian media in Slovakia also had the opportunity to reach a wider audience. After 2005, more news portals were created, and even the only printed newspaper, Új Szó, began to devote itself more to work on the web portal.
A significant part of the media had some kind of political connection, and the split of the formerly united Hungarian party, the SMK, only accelerated the increase in the number of media devoted to politics.
Media from Hungarian taxpayers’ forints
The second important event was when the Fidesz government came to power in Hungary in 2010.
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