An independent body is set up to handle complaints from audiences<\/strong>. The symbol of restoring trust with the public is a body that takes complaints from audiences seriously and consistently calls all public media institutions to account for their compliance with statutory and ethical rules.<\/p>\n4. Monthly viewing\/listening\/access statistics by channel are published. A minimum requirement for transparent management is letting the public know how many people are reached by the public media maintained from their money and what social effect they can exert.<\/p>\n
5. Each year a budget is drawn up which makes clear what program type costs what and how much of it is shown, broken down to exact airtime. The management of public media that use up tens of billions of forints in public money should be made fully transparent and verifiable<\/strong>. This is not only a constitutional requirement, but also a European legal obligation.<\/p>\n6. All supplier contracts are published in searchable form, without the need for submitting freedom of information requests. The basic condition for an authentic operation is the accurate settlement of public funds.<\/p>\n
7. In campaign periods debates of prime ministerial candidates are initiated and broadcasted even if not all candidates are present. It cannot happen again that voters cast their votes without having been given a chance to compare the ideas and capabilities of the candidates. Public media cannot subscribe to political campaigns that totally eliminate the question of reasonableness from political decisions<\/strong>.<\/p>\nTo wind up MTVA, at least two thirds of MPs would need to vote for the law amendment. Nevertheless, conforming to the above points does not require new legislation. By doing the latter, MTVA could implement the changes itself, which would be the first step towards liberating public media.<\/em> If you agree, sign the petition up and join us on Saturday on Szabad sajt\u00f3 (Free Press) Way, where we will take the first steps towards a free and independent public media<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the We Are the Majority<\/em> group, the fairness of the elections has been compromised in many ways, but the gravest problems at the moment are party media built from public money and the restriction of the freedom of press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"staatic_meta_publish":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/aHang-kozmedia.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}