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Fico’s Government Of Revenge and Revision
30 November 2023
30 November 2018
In illiberal regimes, it is not necessary to imprison dissident journalists massively á la the Turkish method; due to the shrinking market opportunities, it is sufficient to capture enough of the media landscape.
This phenomenon is increasingly common in the Visegrad countries leading to the deteriorating media freedom indicators, where another 2/3 majority of Viktor Orbán resulted in an unprecedented centralisation in Hungary.
A policy of subterfuge
No investigation is going to be launched against the reporter working for US-owned TVN who was about to be questioned by the Polish Homeland Security Office for propagating Fascist materials. The incident in question involved the journalist Piotr Wacowski who infiltrated a neo-Nazi group last year and filmed the group celebrating Adolf Hitler’s birthday in a Polish forest.