'French CNN' To Challenge US View of World Affairs ("Surrendering Your World Every 25 Minutes...")

The Guardian UK ^ | 12/10/04 | Jon Henley

[guardian_of_liberty]

Don't speak french.

[MikefromOhio]

gee a government funded news station...perfect for Anti-American propaganda....not that I expected anything better from the Frogs anyway....

[Samurai_Jack]

It's Al Jazeera Deux!

[conservativecorner]

A has been chicken shit country that still believes it's a world power even though we saved their behinds twice in the last 100 years. How very french of them.

[susiek]

What they ignore is that the CNN view of the world isn't that different than the French view of the world. So apparently what they really want to be is the French counter to Fox News. But if they think they will be putting out anti-american "news" that we aren't hearing already, they don't know CNN.

[BibChr]

Love the retitling!

[dfwgator]

It's like those French have a different word for everything.

[July 4th]

TV5 is available around the world, on many US cable systems, and on satellite. It's a French channel with drama and sit-com programming, as well as the rebroadcast news from France 2 in Paris. Viewership is minimal, but sustaining. I have no reason to believe that a government-run channel that rehashes the news will be any more successful.

[WestTexasWend]

"The government will provide €30m (£21m) in start-up funding for the channel..."

Money better spent on life-saving innovations, like, oh... air conditioning.

[skeeter]

'French CNN' To Challenge US View of World Affairs

As if the US media doesn't bust their ass everyday to do the same thing.

I'd likely give the 'French CNN' more credit though - they robably plan on bashing the 'US view' regardless of who's in the White House.

[RAY]

Will they present the news as they see it or simply "analyze and refute" news from the US?

[EagleUSA]

"The government will provide €30m (£21m) in start-up funding for the channel..."
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It figures that Chirac's goverment is sponsoring it -- this idiot does not know how deep of a hole he is digging with the U.S. since we still have a real President. One of these days, when France is a full Muslim country, that maggot Chirac is going to yell for help...and guess what....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wonder if their news is accompanied by a laugh track ?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

One of these days, when France is a full Muslim country, that maggot Chirac is going to yell for help...and guess what....

Doubtless, we'll end up taking on the man's job (the way we always do), and rush over there to save their sorry, worthless, America-loathing hinders. AGAIN.

[lnbchip]

Refute the US Media's World View?

I believe that the US MSM has cornered the market in using its media outlets to push a Progressive thought on the us. The MSM long ago gave up providing NEWS - now they simply provide an outlet for the Liberal / Progressive World View.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

The government will provide €30m (£21m) in start-up funding for the channel, which will "allow international broadcasting that will express the diversity to which our nation is attached," Mr Raffarin said.

Should be a hit in France, Quebec and Cote d'Ivoire.

Perhaps Chirac could get the French government to pay for the CNN equivalent of FoxBlockers for the entire population of his country. And, of course, make it a criminal offense not to have it installed on one's TV.

[inkling]

Working lineup includes:
World Cheese Report
Huguenot & Colmes
Meet the Winepress
Deperdieu Live!
Unreliable Sources
Surrender Stories with Olivier Nord
60 Minuets
Face the Guillotine
Bad Morning America
Etc., etc...

[HamiltonJay]

It will be number one in France and Montreal... and be outperformed by Telemundo Soap Opera Reruns in the rest of the world.

[Martin Wellbourne]

"An estimated 260 million people around the world speak French as a native or second language, compared with some 700 million thought to speak English with some degree of competence."

The French have been toying with this idea for some years - what they don't get is the need to broadcast in English. I bet that a lot of that 260 million also speak English.