Thanks for your comments. As will come as no surprise, I respectfully disagree with most of them.

I would encourage you to read Mr. Brandon Zicha's well-documented post below. It starts out: "This is a poor piece..." In it, Mr. Zicha rebuts point-by-point the various attestations of the international community concerning Prime Minister Orbán's stewardship of Hungarian Democracy.

As for the US media, let's be honest. I'm pretty sure you don't believe a prerequisite to being captured by the government is that the news media must be on the government's payroll. As for the US mainstream media, it is not beholden to the "government". It's beholden to the democrat party. The mainstream media is a democrat party propaganda tool used to 'manufacturing consent' (see Noam Chomsky).

You mentioned revoking broadcasting privileges. Well, the democrat party doesn't need a government fiat. The democrat party only needs to 'wink and nod' at its captured apparatchiks, the "Social Media' companies, who are more than willing to do whatever is needed. Take, for example, Twitter shutting down the New York Post's Twitter account for weeks ahead of the 2020 presidential election because the Post dared to raise questions (found on numerous Hunter Bidden laptop emails) about an extensive and brazen 'pay-for-play' scheme directly implicating Presidential candidate, Joe Biden. And, as it turns out, that New York Post story was true, but sadly the MSM didn't figure it out in time to help inform the public. They buried it - not because the government told them to bury it, but because the mainstream media understood what the democrat party wanted. How many times did we hear it had 'all the markings of classic Russian disinformation'? Yea, right. It was disinformation alright, but not Russian, mainstream media.

Appreciate your comments, but give me Viktor Orbán any day....