Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
To put this in context: for imagine the largest, and one of the last remaining independent news site in a country where most of the media is centrally controlled. Criticism of the government in that media is unknown. This site is read by close to half of the online population. The government is clearly irritated by this.This site was Index, in Hungary. The editorial board resigning is a response of the takeover attempt from government sources.Going forward, the largest, independent news outlet accessible to Hungarians will like be the Guardian and the New York Times.If this was happening in an autocratic country, we’d just shrug. But this happening in an EU country, in a democracy.The question begs itself: can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still?