'French CNN' to challenge US view of world affairs

Jon Henley in Paris
Friday December 10, 2004
The Guardian

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.

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.

The CII (International Information Channel) project, better known in France as "CNN à la Francaise", is a pet project of Jacques Chirac's and was first announced shortly after his 2002 re-election.

It was initially greeted with widespread scepticism, seen as yet another Canute-like attempt to preserve French language and culture in the face of the inexorable onward march of English.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1370685,00.html
Vive la difference!

I'll just bet the voice of the french government will be objective and report the european view.

Americans need a major alternative news channel to watch

The English subtitles will make it difficult, but well worth it. Vive la France!

taught through 8 years of elementary school.

here.Translation:

"I think this is a very good idea. Pass the (book?) text"

It's actually:

"I think this is a very good idea. No text." (n/t)

Or at least that's what it was meant to be. I'm not so sure of the French for text. Book is "livre"; text is texte, IIRC.

I think I just connected "text" with "texto" in Spanish and pas with the American "pass" and my head, trying to be smart, really showed my ignorance. I think your translation makes a whole lot more sense!
;-)

Let's hope they launch an english language version.

I'd rather watch Chinese news than CNN America. I like and don't trust the French version of the news, but making the attempt would itself be a vast improvement over the mockery of underfunded, pretentious lies we get saturated with daily. Al-Jazeera and others and you get a nice balance indeed. After dealing with discerning our American crap I think we are grown up enough to weed out similar abuses elsewhere.

And beat down Murdoch Global Lies Network too.

Call in James A. Baker II and get some new laws in place quick!

He resembles Porky Pig, but porky was more articulate.

"Freedom News?"

US-media-agencies!

Leave it to the French. *glows with European pride and wishes her government would co-finance this*

That looks like a good site.

some french DUers and francophiles americans, either in french or in english, please visite the Groupe Francophone de DU (which is bilingual in fact).
You're all welcome !

What a great idea! I'm going to have a look-see sur le champ!

For the millions of English speakers who want more news diversity.

:bounce: