Magyar Nemzet (1938-2018)

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The last front page of the Magyar Nemzet

Magyar Nemzet (German: "Hungarian Nation") is a conservative Hungarian daily newspaper that was published from August 25, 1938 to April 11, 2018. It was the last national daily newspaper that was not controlled by the Hungarian government or was owned by Viktor Orbán's confidants.

On February 6, 2019, the pro -government newspaper Magyar Idök was renamed Magyar Nemzet .

General data

Magyar Nemzet had a circulation of around 70,000 copies in 2011.

history

Magyar Nemzet was founded before the Second World War as the mouthpiece of moderate conservatism. During the German occupation in 1944/45 it was officially banned and appeared illegal. After the end of the Second World War it appeared as a daily newspaper for the bourgeois forces. Although heavily censored , the Magyar Nemzet was able to maintain a certain degree of independence even during the rule of the Socialist Workers' Party . In the Kádár regime, the daily newspaper was the newspaper of the declassed liberal bourgeoisie. The reporting tended to be dominated by cultural articles.

After the fall of the Wall, the paper became the main organ of bourgeois anti-communists, but remained independent. The center-right government of Viktor Orbán (1998–2002) wanted to turn the newspaper into the largest bourgeois daily, so it was forcibly merged with the right-wing daily Napi Magyarorszag (“Daily Hungary”). The new Magyar Nemzet was ideologically close to the Fidesz party for a long time, but was not just a party newspaper. In 2005 she got competition from the right, as the restructured, former left-liberal daily Magyar Hírlap ("Hungarian newspaper") also sees itself as bourgeois.

The editor-in-chief of Magyar Nemzet was most recently Gábor D. Horváth. The newspaper belonged in the business environment of the entrepreneur Lajos Simicska , a former close friend of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. For years the paper was considered to be Orbán's party Fidesz - Hungarian Citizens' Union. That all changed after the escalation of a long-simmering conflict between Viktor Orbán and Lajos Simicska in early 2015 - since then Magyar Nemzet (as well as other Simicska- related media such as the news channel Hír Televízió ) has taken a position that is significantly more critical of the government.

On April 10, 2018, the newspaper announced its closure for financial reasons. The last national daily newspaper that was not controlled by the government or was in the possession of Viktor Orbán's confidants disappeared.

The renaming of Magyar Idök, understood as a government mouthpiece, to Magyar Nemzet on February 7th, the day of the final break between Viktor Orbán and Lajos Simicska four years earlier, is seen as part of the “satisfaction” for Viktor Orbán's opponents that he announced in the 2018 election campaign would have.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. A Nemzet Lap- és Könyvkiadó Kft. Közleménye. Magyar Nemzet, April 10, 2018, accessed April 10, 2018 .
  2. Hungary's last opposition newspaper has run out. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 10, 2018, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  3. a b Magyar Nemzet | Viktor Orbans Leibblatt takes the name of a traditional newspaper. In: Small newspaper . February 6, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  4. Hongrie: Orbán cible les philosophes. Une campagne antisémite relayée par les médias proches du pouvoir attaque cinq intellectuels. In: Liberation . January 21, 2011, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  5. Imprint, accessed on March 10, 2017 ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mno.hu
  6. From family feud to total war. In: Pester Lloyd . February 7, 2015, accessed March 10, 2017 .
  7. ^ Orbán threatens a new media war. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 8, 2015, accessed March 10, 2017 .
  8. ^ Opposition newspaper "Magyar Nemzet" ceases operations. In: n-tv . Retrieved April 10, 2018 .
  9. Hungary's last opposition newspaper has run out. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 10, 2018, accessed February 8, 2019 .