media investor and a member of the political party currently in coalition with prime minister viktor orban sparty feed us now whilst the new owners. insisted that the publications independence's guaranteed staff there are warning of a doomsday scenario in which the website could be made to parrot the fish party's ideological agenda eighty eight employees have signed a statement saying that if there are any changes we will notify the world as loud as we possibly can but we've seen this kind of thing before pro orbán business tycoons taking over news outlets critical of the orbán government promising not to tamper with the editorial policies and then reneging there's a pattern here isn't there yes there is over the past four years dozens of newspapers radio and television channels critical of orbán have changed hands some of subsequently shut down others have drastically changed the editorial line just last month we've reported on the takeover of here t.v. one of its new owners jill neaera guess insisted he would not get involved in the channel's work but that same nights he cancelled one of her t.