SARKOZY CALLS FOR AN END TO ADS ON FRENCH PUBLIC TV AND PULLS PLUG ON FRANCE 24 FUNDING
January 10th 2008 00:49
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is throwing his weight around on television issues, while of course delighting the press contingent with a steady supply of photos of his good self with his spunkrat model girlfriend.
On Tuesday, Sarkozy caused headlines and a rush of blood on the stock market by called for an end to advertising on French public television.
His heralding of a broadcast ‘revolution’ sent shares in the country's private TV networks rocketing, according to the Tocqueville Connection.
“I want the remit of public television to be reviewed in depth, and for us to consider a complete end to advertising on public channels,” Sarkozy told a New Year press conference. The lost income could be replaced via “a tax on the higher advertising income of private channels and the revenues generated by new means of communication such as internet access or mobile telephones,” he suggested.
The Tocqueville Connection also reported that Sarkozy also called for a stop to the funding of the English-language version of round-the-clock news channel France 24, calling for a new French-only network to replace it. ‘With taxpayers' money, I am not prepared to broadcast a channel that does not speak French,’ Sarkozy told a press conference.
France 24 is involved in a court case over the sensational Palestine boy martyr, Al-Dura, issue. The case will be heard in late February and France 24 is accused of either incorrectly reporting or even staging this story by stating that the Israelis purposefully killed the boy.
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