don't ask morrow to be accurate
"trallala" a écrit dans le message de news:
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> The channel is founded by French tax-payers, so its not
> exactly a French CNN............................
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> "Gregory Morrow"
> a écrit dans le message de news:
> wgpdh.6860$sf5.5705@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net...
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>> from the December 06, 2006 edition:
>> http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1206/p01s01-woeu.html
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>> From Paris, with edge: French 'CNN' beams new view
>>
>> By Susan Sachs | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
>>
>> PARIS
>>
>> "In 2003, France took an unforgettable beating.
>>
>> As the leader of global opposition to the Iraq war, it became the
>> late-night
>> comedian's punching bag. Its citizens suffered the revival of a term
>> popularized by "The Simpsons" - "cheese-eating surrender monkeys." In a
>> pointed snub, the US Congress cafeterias dubbed their crisp, oily potato
>> strips "freedom fries."
>>
>> Stung by such Anglo-Saxon indignities, President Jacques Chirac ordered
>> up a
>> "French CNN." The 24-hour satellite news service debuts Wednesday.
>>
>> But France 24 is not merely a Francophone rendition of round-the-clock
>> news.
>> Instead, it aims to plunge viewers into regions and perspectives that get
>> little air time elsewhere. And despite its linguistic concession to
>> broadcast in English as well, the network intends to be every bit as
>> proud,
>> quarrelsome, and contrarian as the French believe themselves to be.
>>
>> "The real French 'touch' will be lots of debate and analysis of debate,"
>> says Caroline de Camaret, the European affairs editor. "If there is one
>> thing the French value above all, it's putting all views up for debate
>> and
>> understanding why people take certain views."
>>
>> France 24 will go out Wednesday via Internet streaming, then, a day
>> later,
>> by satellite, reaching Europe, Africa, the Middle East, New York, and
>> Washington. Initially available in French and English, the station
>> expects
>> to add an Arabic-language channel early next year and eventually a fourth
>> one in Spanish.
>>
>> Although France 24 hits the ground running, with a $104 million start-up
>> budget guaranteed by the government, it is entering an already crowded
>> field.
>>
>> There are the far richer pioneers like CNN International, the BBC, and
>> the
>> Arabic network Al Jazeera, which last month launched an English channel.
>> But
>> stations subsidized in part, or completely, by the United Arab Emirates,
>> South Africa, Morocco, China, and Germany, among others, have also
>> launched
>> international news operations.
>>
>> The mission of France 24, according to the charter which its staffers
>> must
>> sign, is to spread French values, culture, and "art de vivre" throughout
>> the
>> world, as well as a sense of "debate, confrontation, and contradiction."
>> It
>> is also banking on the novelty of its "French regard" on the news,
>> including
>> deeper coverage of Europe, Africa, and the Arab world than its
>> competitors
>> provide.
>>
>> "What people tend to get now are images and news that are almost too
>> rapid,"
>> says Agnès Levallois, the editor of the station's Arabic service and
>> Middle
>> East coverage. "They are often caricatures and often very much the same
>> from
>> station to station."
>>
>> That is especially true in the coverage of Iraq and the Arab world in
>> general, where, she says, a degree of jingoism and self- censorship
>> taints
>> the otherwise professional journalism on other satellite stations.
>>
>> "There are images you just won't see on CNN because Americans don't want
>> to
>> see certain images on their television screens, and that's
>> understandable,"
>> says Ms. Levallois. "But we are in Paris and we have real freedom of
>> expression to raise different questions. And we have diplomatic liberty.
>> We
>> don't have the same constraints as the Anglo-Saxon stations and CNN which
>> are linked to American forces in the region."
>>
>> France 24 has only a handful of foreign correspondents, compared with the
>> dozens of bureaus operated by competitors like the BBC. It will rely on
>> journalists in the field who work for more established French news
>> organizations and especially its new managing partners, the private TF1
>> TV
>> channel, and public French media outlets.
>>
>> But much of its content will be produced in the sprawling newsroom on the
>> western edge of Paris where the 170 journalists of France 24, most of
>> them
>> multilingual, have set up shop among state-of-the-art equipment. The
>> average
>> age of the staff is 33. Little signs of their insouciance are evident
>> everyw
>> here: A picture of Marilyn Monroe identifies the women's bathrooms and
>> one
>> of Albert Einstein marks the men's.
>>
>> The European Union summit in mid-December, which is expected to focus on
>> Turkey and its faltering bid for EU membership, will be a distinctive
>> testing ground for the notion of a French look on events.
>>
>> Ms. De Camaret, for example, says she wants to get beyond the rather
>> sneering and often negative coverage of the EU found on the Anglo-Saxon
>> media. Regarding Turkey, she adds, France 24 will examine the mood in
>> specific European countries as well as Turkey's own internal conflicts.
>>
>> "I think it's important to not only give the CNN point of view - that
>> Turkey
>> should be in Europe because it has a strong Army and it's a bridge
>> between
>> East and West - but also something more nuanced," says De Camaret. "I
>> want
>> to have debate and analysis on why there is this reversal of opinion in
>> European countries."
>>
>> In some ways, France 24 harkens back to the competitive philosophy of the
>> cold war when the US and the Soviet Union, among others, created Radio
>> Free
>> Europe and Radio Moscow to promote their own ideological values and
>> culture.
>>
>> The French language itself is a beloved part of that culture. But the
>> journalists at the station see no irony in expressing a French view on
>> the
>> world in languages other than French.
>>
>> "The language is not the point," says De Camaret. "The point is the
>> message."
>>
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