Chief among those points was the role the media, and Orbán’s control over it, has played in his Fidesz party’s consolidation of power. In Hungary’s most recent election, state-controlled media outlets made it almost impossible for opposition candidates to have their message heard, much less supported. In a recent interview with Jordan Peterson, Conservative leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre hinted he had plans to rejig the Canadian media landscape. Defunding the CBC, as Poilievre has promised to do numerous times, might not be the hill he really wants to die on. Poilievre has never said he would fund a right-wing media operation like this, but it’s not hard to see why he would try.

Source: Fox News May 27, 2022 16:24 UTC