Former Czech PM uses newspapers he owns to attack media integrity
by Robert Tait in Prague from World news | The Guardian on (#639AM)
Journalists accuse Andrej Babi of undermining serious media' with extraordinary front-page broadside
The populist former Czech prime minister Andrej Babi has been accused of subverting press freedom after he used the front pages of two national newspapers he owns to attack the integrity of independent news outlets and urge readers to follow him on social media as an alternative.
The extraordinary broadside was carried by the Mlada Fronta Dnes and Lidove noviny papers a week before Babi - a billionaire tycoon and one of the Czech Republic's richest men - stands trial for alleged subsidy fraud.
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