freedom-of-press

The "Autocratic Crackdown" Threatening Hungary's Freedom of Press

Aleksander Chan · 09/12/14 02:35PM

Hungary's tightening vice on its press amounts to "an autocratic crackdown," Philip N. Howard, a professor at the Central European University and at the University of Washington, writes in the New York Times—taking specific aim at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's control of the country's Media Authority, which monitors media competition and issues broadcast licenses: