Hungary has implemented draconian media laws that have drawn widespread criticism and cast a shadow on Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban's current EU Presidency. The laws effectively hand over complete control of the media to the government, which will be able to impose penalties to any perceived offence. The new laws are said to be vague and open to interpretation.
One of the first casualties of the new laws was radio host Attila Mong, whose personal protest involved a minute's silence on his popular programme, 180 Minutes. Mong was immediately suspended and faces an internal disciplinary investigation. Npr.org reported Mong as saying, "This was a matter of journalistic conscience for me. I was talking with my editor and we were thinking we wouldn't want young reporters 15 years from now asking, 'You were there, what did you do, what didn't you do?' I think this is public service journalism when something serious is happening to maybe choose unusual, formal solutions. This was trying to draw the attentions of average Hungarians that these
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