Hi Continuing the thread on French media, I think I'm entitled to have my say, being 46 years old and a long time user of my native country's radio and TV networks.
The public TV channel France 2 and the public Radio France Inter are undoubtedly Left-orientated but interestingly they also tend to follow the government-or should I say the establishment's- pre-packed philosophy in certain fields such as French Diplomacy, European Constitution , America Bashing, French Arm Sales ("nothing to see, please move on !"), Support to 30 year-old African dictatorships (Gabon , former Zaire, 1970's Centrafrique) , Nuke testing in the Pacific, etc.. The media have been shockingly biased in favour of the soon-to-be-buried EU Constitution serving a vision which was nothing but elite propaganda.This was less visible on private radios such as Europe 1 (183 khz) which hosted numerous phone-in programmes that gave the opportunity to scores of Eurosceptics to express their views. The most scandilizing bit in the public sector was the 1930 show on France Inter every saturday about European Construction which reminded me of the Radio Tirana of the mid seventies. The defeat of the Paris Application to the 2012 Olympic Games saw the media re-united in a frenzy of UK Bashing that only faded away at the news of the horrible London blasts. Finally no media seriously challenges our shafeful pro-arab policy (Chirac embracing Assad in the wake of September 11th) and our disgusting tolerance towards Putine , the exterminator of countless innocent Chechen civilians. Feel free to remove this contribution if you deem it too offensive but remember I'm French so I know about my country media's shortcomings. Cheers de Pat -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.5/58 - Release Date: 25/07/05 ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt