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According to the opinion piece published by the EUobserver June 6, the Orban government is waging a concerted effort to capture the media.
"Media capture," claims Harlan Mandel, "is when governments and business interests collude to control and manipulate the flow of information."
The "spiritual home" of this phenomenon is, of course, Hungary, but it's spreading its "tentacles into new territories," Mandel warn...
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Dr Zoltan Kovacs is state secretary for international communication in the cabinet office of the prime minister of Hungary.