Journalists to get in the EU, especially under pressure, where right-wing populists to Power came. Influence on the reporting and defamation just two tools of many.
Newspaper kiosk in the capital of Poland, Warsaw
The murders of the Slovak Reporter, Jan Kuciak, and the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia have made the freedom of the press in the European Union on the subject. Less brutal and still effective right-wing politicians bring the media in tribulation, where they will be elected in the government. DW spoke with journalists from the countries concerned.
Hungary: Same-Switched Messages
“In Hungary, many of the messages come from a single source, since the government of Viktor Orban private media has created companies,” analyzes the Journalist Marton Gergely, working for Hungary’s largest weekly newspaper HVG. This Holding produce all the content for the public broadcaster, and also covers the state of the Hungarian press Agency.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Orban is widely used by Free-news, “government propaganda,” Journalist Gergely
“Their messages are heavily censored, or in the sense of the government’s rewritten,” says Gergely. In the meantime, the Agency provides the majority of their content for free. The have urged the independent competition from the market. Private radio stations were required by law to send news blocks. This the Holding is also free of charge.
The Free shows hot under the nickname of “migrant News”. You are, Gergely, negative reporting on immigrants and self-congratulation for the government. “This is a real propaganda machine, which costs a hell of a lot of money when you consider what the Hungarian government is spending compared to education and health.”
The newspaper market was of Orban’s policy is not spared. By Viewing the government to Finance targeted loyalty Newspapers with taxpayers ‘ money, while independent Newspapers could get no or less advertising. Many of the publications could not withstand the economic pressure. In Hungary, there are currently three nation-wide daily newspaper, two of “revolver leaves the government”, as Gergely calls.
Poland: the investigations against journalists
Journalist Wielinski: government and judge put journalists in distress
Also in Poland, the national-conservative government after their electoral success in 2015, the system of public broadcasting under their control. Bartosz Wielinski works for the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza in Warsaw. The press, which was not connected with the government or not shut down, would severely exercised economic and political pressure, complained to the Polish Journalist.
“For me personally, nothing has happened yet, fortunately, Evil, but colleagues of mine have already had a bad experience,” says Wielinski. Many of his colleagues had to answer in court. At the beginning of December, a Journalist of the Polish Newsweek to the police had been charge of interrogation. He is said to have injured in a Portrait of the Vice-President of the constitutional court whose personality rights, as he mentioned in the report, the name of the street in which the judge lives. Also, the President of the constitutional court called on the public Prosecutor’s office investigation, after you have critically been reported. Another journalist over an indictment of the military Prosecutor’s office to go even threatened.
Economical Newspapers are, similarly as in Hungary, mainly through the absence of orders of the government Advertising under pressure. “You get almost as a punishment for critical reporting, no more Advertisements,” said Wielinski. The concerned advertising government or state-controlled enterprises, such as the web or Telecom. The will of the government to hold Newspapers “on a short leash,” said Wielinski, reflected also in the Distribution. His Gazeta Wyborcza are not to be found in a gas station of the state oil Company hardly, either you’re lying or will be covered by other Newspapers.
Italy: the end of the media promotion?
Journalist Camilli takes care of the diversity of media in Italy
Even if journalists would be restricted in their labor much less than in Poland and Hungary, have changed the climate in the last months in Italy, says Annalisa Camilli. She works as a journalist for the weekly newspaper Internazionale in Rome. Since then, the coalition consisting of the populist Five-star movement and the right-wing Lega is in Power, journalists become the enemy of the policy. Often journalists would be referred to as a liar. Other insults, and sometimes under the belt line – it is not uncommon, Camilli. In addition, some members of the government, journalists would deliberately go out of the way. Instead of press conferences there are now Tweets and Facebook Posts – Ask excluded.
The Italian media landscape for years under the influence of Ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi, during his tenure, numerous TV channels, publishing houses and advertising companies Board of Directors. In his shadow, and numerous smaller publications, which were economically from the state-run media promotions, Camilli emerged. These subsidies will underline the new government now. A corresponding law, the Italian Parliament has just been discussed. “If this is implemented, this is a big, big loss to the Italian press – and information system,” complains Camilli.
Austria: right to build their own media
Austria is located in the Ranking of press freedom, the Organisation reporters without borders (RWB), the world’s leaders. Nevertheless, the Polish Journalist Bartosz Wielinski care since the coalition government of the conservative people’s party (ÖVP) and the right-wing Freedom party (FPÖ) over a year ago came to Power. The Attempts of members of the Austrian government pressure on public broadcasting to exercise, for example, by defamation, to be “scary,” he says.
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And even beyond the traditional media, it would create Austria’s rights to bring content to pass unfiltered to the people, analysed Nina Horaczek, chief reporter for the Austrian weekly newspaper Falter. Already ten years ago the FPÖ have started an alternative news structure. This includes Social Media Profiles with hundreds of thousands of “Likes include on the one hand”. On the other hand, the party were writing near Online media created the article in the interest of the party, the FPÖ-politicians, in turn, in social networks. This approach is already outside the country’s borders imitators. Thus, the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), the copy in Germany is currently the media strategy of the FPÖ.