According to Forbes, France 24 in English is going to be axed.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is quoted saying:

“a public channel, France Monde… can only speak French.

“Between Al-Jazeera, the Arab perspective, and CNN, the Anglo-Saxon perspective, we would like to carry more of a French perspective,” he said.

“We can perfectly have regional subtitling, in Spanish, Arabic, English, to carry a vision that is more French.”

Ah, sub-titling – the wave of the future!