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Eastern Europe's New Press Lords
Vamos, Mikl&ocute;s | September 30, 1991 issue

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In Eastern Europe, hundreds of new newspapers started to bloom in the ruins of socialism. Hungary was the pioneer in the newspaper business. New dailies and weeklies still show up every week. It has never been so easy to start a daily or a weekly, and it has never been so easy to lose one. The incompetence of the state-run postal system is the main obstacle. "Magyar Hirlap" was one of the four national newspapers in Hungary. It was the youngest, created by the Communist government as an ostensible alternative to the existing three, all government papers. When Communism collapsed, the state did not want to subsidize newspapers any longer, so selling the money losers became as important as it is in Western countries.

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NEWSPAPERS; SOCIALISM; MAGYAR Hirlap (Newspaper); COMMUNISM; EUROPE, Eastern; HUNGARY
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