Media Outlets In Hungary Join Forces To Protest Ad Tax

  • 6 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
Media Outlets In Hungary Join Forces To Protest Ad Tax
More than one hundred media outlets joined on Thursday evening the action protesting against the planned ad tax. At the behest of the Hungarian Advertising Association, television, radio, print and internet journalists voiced their objections to the related bill which was submitted to parliament on Monday.

 Between 7.15pm and 7.30pm commercial television stations showed a blank screen while on radio stations they read out a message of protest. Online media also carried a protest text for a quarter of an hour. 
 
Print media plan on Friday to have a blank page. (Népszava already on Thursday carried a blank on page 9.) The media demonstrating cut across the political divide. Among the TV stations demonstrating were RTL, TV2, HírTV and ATV. 
 
Radios protesting against the ad tax included Class FM, InfoRádió, Lánchíd Rádió and Gazdasági Rádió. Papers joining the action include broadsheets Magyar Nemzet, Népszabadság and Népszava, tabloid Blikk, free-sheet Metropol as well as weeklies HVG, Magyar Narancs and 168 óra.
 
 Among the widest-read internet portals, Origo, Index and online versions of the major papers also joined the protest.
 
Source www.hungarymatters.hu 
 
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