Like in most countries in the region, in Hungary, such games have a long tradition. At one time, there was will to stop this somehow, and the public radio and television oversight boards were expanded to include non-political appointees, nominated by NGOs. However, the Right gamed the system with partisan NGOs, and had a virtual majority even under the nominal center-left government.

The latest round, just in this month: the providers of the morning news show [one boycotted by the leader of main opposition party Fidesz] were kicked out, and a new, Fidesz-close team took over. Now the boycotting turned 180 degrees -- and the government withdrew state support for the puvblic television...

However, the two main parties had no scrupples to collude when, also in the past month, the two main FM radio frequencies were re-tendered: the radios using it until now lost, and one Socialist- and one Fidesz-close company were awarded. (Because there was US capital in one of the ditched radios, even the US Congress issued a protest.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}