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2004-12-11 Europe
'French CNN' to challenge US view of world affairs
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Posted by tipper 2004-12-11 7:50:44 AM|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I would like to know who has told that thief (I am speaking of Raffarin) he has the right to dig in MY pocket for this endeavour.

I wsould have some respect for that rival of CNN if it were started by people putting their money in it. But it is with money from other people, extorted money from other people.
Posted by JFM  2004-12-11 8:18:14 AM||   2004-12-11 8:18:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I watch French TV news once in a while. It doesn't seem all that different from CNN. Even got some real hot info-babes.
Posted by HV 2004-12-11 10:03:00 AM||   2004-12-11 10:03:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 One Communist News Network is bad enough. Now they want to have a French version?
Posted by Zhang Fei  2004-12-11 10:59:00 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2004-12-11 10:59:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 A news channel in the country's native language broadcast exclusively outside that countries borders? Sounds far more like a French version of the BBC world service than a CNN clone.

Which can only be a good thing.
Posted by WingedAvenger 2004-12-11 11:06:17 AM||   2004-12-11 11:06:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 They will find they have more in common with CNN than first thought.
Posted by eLarson 2004-12-11 11:18:44 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2004-12-11 11:18:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Notice they would calim to challenge FNC? It's like the weakling on the playground picking on the cripple. It's sad for both and neither comes out a winner. And exactly how many countries require people to learn French? Talk about a finite audience!
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-12-11 11:36:00 AM||   2004-12-11 11:36:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 The Chirac News Network, that's just fuckin' great...
Posted by Raj 2004-12-11 11:44:01 AM||   2004-12-11 11:44:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 How much worse will it be than the real CNN? Will it have English translations or will it just be CNN in French?
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-11 11:57:21 AM||   2004-12-11 11:57:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Mrs. Davis: How much worse will it be than the real CNN? Will it have English translations or will it just be CNN in French?

It will be like an English version of al-Jazeera, the CNN of the Middle East.
Posted by Zhang Fei  2004-12-11 12:07:19 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2004-12-11 12:07:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Actually, getting the French to broadcast something in English is quite an achievement. Too bad it probably won't be available in France.
Posted by Zhang Fei  2004-12-11 12:07:58 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2004-12-11 12:07:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Let a thousand channels bloom, let a thousand blogs contend!
Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-11 3:17:35 PM||   2004-12-11 3:17:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 France is to launch a French-language news channel next year in a long-awaited attempt to challenge the dominance of the American view of world current affairs, the prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, said yesterday.

I can imagine its slant - Ali Khamenei, Kim Jong Il, Bashar Assad, and Fidel Castro are all decent and honorable men, and Hamid Karzai, Iyad Allawi, John Howard, and Ariel Sharon are all evil scoundrels.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-11 3:36:18 PM||   2004-12-11 3:36:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 After the MSM, take on the French. Blogueurs unite!
Posted by lex 2004-12-11 9:50:59 PM||   2004-12-11 9:50:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 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.

Tee hee, the Guardianistas are so cute! When the inevitable corrections flow in, the GU will of course respond-- drum roll-- "but you're including the US, and we said, 'with competence'!!!"

In reality, the ratio of English- to French-speakers is at least twice as high as these ridiculous figures imply. You have around 450 million English speakers in the western hemisphere, plus another 120 million in British Isles + SA + OZ, plus another ~200 million across Africa and the middle east, plus ~200 million on the subcontinent and ~200 million in non-OZ East Asia. And finally you have another 200 million across continental Europe, = much more than >1 billion, probably 1.3-1.4 billion english speakers across the globe.
Posted by lex 2004-12-11 9:59:34 PM||   2004-12-11 9:59:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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