Czechs stage huge rally against public-media funding overhaul

Hundreds of thousands of Czechs rallied in Prague on Sunday against the nationalist government’s plan to overhaul public-media funding, which critics see as a threat to press freedom. The government of billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis wants to switch from funding Czech TV and Czech Radio through licence fees paid by viewers and listeners to payments from the state budget. Opponents say the move will stifle media freedom as it will make the outlets more dependent on the state. “We need to...