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Tag: France 24

  • Time on France 24

    Rumors of political maneuverings have been so thick that late last month an editorial in Le Monde accused the channel’s bosses of “schemings unworthy of a banana republic.”Time takes a skeptical look at Jacques Chirac’s answer to the entire Anglo-Saxon broadcast news media, France 24. The managing editor doesn’t use my favourite word (“weltanschauung“), but…

  • France 24 – Fromage…dommage!

    MY VERDICT?I wish France Vingt-Quatre was either more French, or more professional (like AJE). You’re promised dinner in Paris, but instead get burger and chips on the Champs Élysées.Now available on Sky 515. I’m watching a revoiced package from the French channel on Le Salon du Chocolat. Here’s how the Frenchness manifests itself: On chocolate…

  • Bienvenue France 24

    France 24 is on the air. Don’t you love those old expressions? What I really mean is, it’s on the net, streaming like it’s got an online prostate problem. The little I can see of it confirms my dodgy graphic fears. The journalism? Hello Airbus! It is a reminder that the folks at Al Jazeera…

  • France 24 – dodgy continental graphics

    Jean Gabin in Quai des Brumes, Philippe Noiret in La Vie et rien d’autre, Depardieu in Le Colonel Chabert, Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart in Un Coeur en Hiver. Some of my favourite movies are French. But I have a problem (not in my lousy taste in movies) – I don’t get the French fascination…