BUDAPEST, June 13 -- The government of Prime Minister Peter Magyar has submitted legislation to tear down and rebuild Hungary's state media, an attempt to undo what critics at home and across Europe spent years describing as Viktor Orban's propaganda machine.

The bill, tabled in parliament by Magyar's Tisza party, would break up MTVA, the sprawling holding company that controls public television and radio, splitting it along its broadcasting lines and re-establishing the MTI wire service as an independent national news agency.

At its centre is a new Independent Public Media Committee, charged with guarding the impartiality of public broadcasting, supervising its budgets and operations, and helping choose its leadership. Seats would be d...