After Orbán election victory, critical media takes another big hit in Hungary
(World News Austria)

It took less than 24 hours after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán`s landslide victory in this month`s parliamentary elections for a fresh earthquake to hit Hungary`s already battered media landscape. On Sunday, April 8, Orbán`s Fidesz party won a comfortable two-thirds majority to lead the country for a third four-year term. By Monday afternoon, it was an open secret that Lajos Simicska, one of the country`s richest oligarchs and owner of several media outlets, would quickly dispense of his media empire. On Tuesday, it all became public. Journalists at Magyar Nemzet, the last political daily with no formal or informal financial ties to the government, were informed that the 80-year-old...