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!