Rights groups say EU must act on media freedom in Poland, Hungary and Slovenia
A woman holds Polish and EU flags while demonstrating against the Polish government’s proposed media advertising tax which would impact private broadcasters, in Krakow, Poland, 12 February 2021, Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto The EU has sat on the sidelines for too long. Repeated inaction to stop the undermining of media freedom and pluralism first in Hungary, and then in Poland, has allowed this model of media capture to grow and spread to other Member States. The cost of further inaction is simply too high.
This statement was originally published on ipi.media on 9 March 2021.
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Prime Minister Janez Jansa, Slovenia s Marshal Tweeto and the media
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa is waging an ongoing war of words on Twitter against critical journalists, accusing them of lying and spreading fake news. Now the EU has criticized Jansa s dealings with the media.
A little girl writes graffiti on a wall in English: If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. The word truth has been crossed out with red spray paint and replaced with journalism. This picture was tweeted by Slovenia s Prime Minister Janez Jansa. His tweet was aimed at the
Kleine Zeitung, a newspaper based in the Austrian city of Graz, which had annoyed the Slovenian premier with an article about his attitude toward the press in his country.
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