Keyword – public discourse

Bátorfy, Attila:

The purchased public sphere

The problem of subsidised speech and the government’s advertising practice

This paper examines the Hungarian government’s media subsidisation and state advertising practice based on the notion “subsidised speech” as studied in the American constitutional law. It attempts to conceptualise the collision between the government’s right to speech and the citizens’ basic rights and the public interest.

Keywords: freedom of speech, public discourse, state advertising, state subsidy, subsidized speech