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Broadcasting a Nuclear Accident: Chernobyl on Hungarian Radio

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Boldog D.
Central European Journal of Communication
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2024
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vol. 17
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issue 3(37)
311-331
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On 26 April 1986 a fatal nuclear accident occurred in the Soviet Union. Reactor No. 4 of the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant exploded, and harmful radioactive fall-out effused. The disaster threatened most of the population of Europe, but the people – including the Hungarian – could not receive appropriate information about the danger as an authoritarian media policy was in effect in all of the Eastern Block’s countries. This paper, based on an analysis of archival radio news and political communiques, describes how the Hungarian political leadership managed this crisis domestically. It also discusses what kind of information, and when, was aired on Hungarian Radio. The aim of this case study to reveal the domestic features of a specific platform of the Soviet communist media system in a time of global crisis.
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