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Guillotine not yet down on France 24
The superb Media Network blog has an AFP story out of Paris suggesting that the guillotine blade has not yet dropped on the Version Anglais of France 24. “The president has expressed his opinion and it is he who will take the decision,” Mr Kouchner went on. “But the consultation period has barely begun and…
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Adieu France 24?
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…
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Playing business politics with TV news
I own a few Sky shares so I wasn’t exactly thrilled when James Murdoch decided to buy a chunk of ITV. Still, the following announcement had me choking on my chips: Ofcom’s advice is that there are public interest issues, in relation to sufficient plurality of news provision for both cross media and television news…
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Sky bye
Let’s hope Ofcom makes the case to keep Sky News available on Freeview, or bang go millions of homes. Journo-blogger Chris Doidge makes the point well: …the news that Sky News is to retreat from such a popular platform (almost certainly losing a large percentage of its viewers) suggests Sky has little faith in the…