Hungary’s pro-Orbán TV channel apologized for years of lying
“Public media cannot lie. We apologize for having done so for many years,” read a message broadcast by the state television channel M1.
The channel also suspended its news broadcast.
This came after a change in the leadership of the public media holding MTVA. The new management launched a reform of the state media, promising to make them independent.
Kossuth Radio replaced its news programming with classical music, while the websites of the public media temporarily went offline.
Prime Minister Péter Magyar said that the era of state propaganda had come to an end.