Media in Keszaria

Media in Keszaria consist of several different types of Keszarian communications media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based websites. Many of the media are controlled by large, for-profit corporations with reap revenue from advertising, subscriptions, and sale of copyrighted material. Keszaria also has a small but strong music and film industry.

There is no censorship in Keszaria, although independent media has faced recently financial problems due to the 1576 economic crisis. Most international journalist NGOs and think tanks label Keszarian media as either "free media" or "partly free".

Overview

Before late-1540s, no independent media was allowed and all television, radio, and newspapers were state-owned. After the transition from the communist regime to a democracy in 1554-1559, many independent and private-owned radio and newspapers were created. The first private-owned television channel was launched in 1562. Therefore, most of Keszarian media is only a few decades old, with the only exception of the state-owned television channels KTV and KTV-2.

Newspapers

The number of national daily newspapers in Keszaria was 10 in 1540 and it increased to 28 in 1550. In 1549 the Press Law became effective, regulating the print media market in the country. Following the collapse of the communist regime the act was revised in Marth 1560.

Daily newspapers

Szólam

Szólamis a Keszarian daily newspaper which began publishing on Alvan 1562. It was acquired by a Lanlanian media company in 1580. The newspaper is a tabloid publication and has no clear political affiliation. In addition to the Szólam newspaper, other publications with the Szólam name are also available, such as the weekend edition called Készö Szólam (began in the late 1560s), entertainment magazine named Szólam Magazin, Szólam Asszony, a publication targeted to women, and Szólam Sport, a sport magazine. It has its headquarters in Köszövár. By 1582, Szólam was the second most read daily newspaper in Keszaria by circulation.

Szórszágos

Szórszágos ("national voice") is a Keszarian daily newspaper owned by businessman Tibor Bartak. It is a conservative newspaper, known as a supporter of political parties of Keszaria with conservative and traditional values. It was created in 1558, only a few months before the 1559 elections. It endorsed Árpad Ormandy in the 1559 elections, the first presidential elections in the democratic era. From 1559 to 1579 it supported and endorsed candidates of the Messanic Democratic Party. It, however, endorsed Vice President Géza Békésy in the runoff of the 1579 presidential elections, and it is openly supports the ruling Keszarian Liberal Movement since 1582. By early 1583, it was the most read newspaper in Keszaria.

Vízdél Korszak

Vízdél Korszak is a Keszarian daily newspaper. It was started in 1552 as a newspaper of the Keszarian government. It was privatized after the political transition in 1559, and quickly became known for backing liberal causes. In 1564 it was bought by Jokédv Media Group. It is published in broadsheet format and it has its headquarters in Vízdél. From 1559 to 1571, it endorsed candidates of the centrist Civic Democratic Union (CDU-PDS), and it often supported the governments of CDU-PDS presidents Zsoltán Barényi and Álmos Vaszary. It, however, endorsed Freedom Party leader Nándor Dohnányi-Persbrandt in the 1574 presidential elections, and Freedom Party candidate László Simonyi in the 1579 elections.

Following the 1576 economic crisis, the newspaper faced severe financial problems. In Septem 1583 it was bought by Guttmann Investment, which reduced its staff and announced an ideological shift a month later when Béla Gyarmati, a former Civic Democratic Union politician, was hired as new editor-in-chief. From 1572 to 1580 it was the most read daily newspaper in Keszaria. However, since 1579 its readership reduced considerably.

Víszdél Korszak also publishes a Lanlanian-language edition, known as Vízdél-Posten.

Nemzeti Hírlap

Nemzeti Hírlap is a conservative daily newspaper published in Keszaria. Its name literally means "National news". The newspaper was founded by entrepeneur Gusztáv Szabados in 1572.

Nemzeti Hírlap supports Messanic traditional values, and it endorsed Messanic Democratic Party candidates several times. It often complained about bias of the more readily available Vízdél Korszak newspaper and the government's alleged de facto censorship by cutting off funds for conservative media during the CDU-PDS Álmos Vaszary and Freedom Party Nándor Dohnányi-Persbrandt presidencies (1569-1579).

The party shifted further to right-wing ideologies as consequence of the 1576 financial crisis. It endorsed Vice President Géza Békésy in the 1579 presidential elections. It, however, supported National People's Party candidate Gyöngy Székély for the runoff of the Vice President elections the same year. It often supports the policies of the radical-right National People's Party, which the newspaper has endorsed several times in Senate and local elections.

The newspaper is considered "national-conservative" and "nationalist". In 1581 the paper was involved in a controversy after it published an opinion piece by Viktor Romanyi, who referred to the killings of three Keszarian girls, where two ethnic Carpathians were suspected of involvement, and wrote that many Carpathians are "animals...unfit to live in a civilized society" and "potencial murderers...who should not be accepted as citizens". The article generated negative reactions in Keszaria and nearby countries. Nemzeti Hírlap spokesman declared that Romanyi's views were "his own" and that the newspaper "do not censor the opinions of its journalists and contributors". A National People's Party spokesman said critics of Romanyi's article were "siding with" Carpathian murderers, while Vice President Gyöngy Székély deplored that many Keszarian intellectuals are lately involved in "witch hunts" against conservative ideas moved by "political correctness", in reference of the public reactions to Romanyi's article.

Valuta

Valuta ("money" in Keszarian language) is the leading Keszarian business daily newspaper published by Nándor Morgan Group. It was founded in 1560 and it is headquartered in Köszövár. The daily is called the "yellow newspaper" since it is published on yellowish paper. During the communist era in Keszaria it was the first private-owned newspaper which was allowed direct access to foreign news agencies. It is considered a center-right newspaper, although it rarely endorses candidates or political parties on elections.