DISAGREEMENT IN FRANCE OVER PLAN FOR FRENCH-LANGUAGE-ONLY PUBLIC TV
January 11th 2008 08:34
AFP reports that French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Wednesday that he did “not completely” agree with abandoning the broadcasting in foreign languages advocated by President Nicolas Sarkozy for the future publicly-owned channel, France-Monde.
Sarkozy caused surprise on Tuesday when he said he wanted this new channel – bringing together the resources of TV5, France 24 and Radio France Internationale (RFI) – to be created “this year” and to broadcast only in “French”.
“It seems pointless to him to compete in English with news channels such as CNN, Al Jazeera or BBC World. To me, not completely. I think there is a ‘French touch’ which will have to be developed,” Kouchner told the press when asked about Sarkozy’s announcement.
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