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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Chirac Schemes to Unleash French 'News' Channel
Must-flee TV: Chief French quisling Jacques Chirac is scheming to unleash a 24-hour "news" channel, dubbed "CNN ` la frangaise," to push pro-French propaganda on the world.
The idea has sat around like a glob of pate de foie gras since 1989, but Chirac is making it a reality, courtesy of $100 billion in taxpayer money, after being humiliated and reviled for his embrace of genocidal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
"The idea is to set up a network of foreign news bureaus, much like that of the BBC World Service and CNN, and broadcast throughout the Middle East and Africa, where the vast French colonial empire once held sway," reports the April 28 issue of Forbes in an article headlined "What Gaul!"
Chirac TV will even come to America on cable and satellite. "If you're not seen in Washington and New York, you may as well not exist," admits Martin Even, "audiovisual attachi" at the French Embassy in New York.
Get this: Even claims the idea is for "independent and balanced" coverage to correct the bias in U.S. media. Does that mean Chirac TV will be more or less anti-American than Peter Jennings and Dan Rather?
There's room for a network whose point of view lies somewhere between CNN and Al Jazeera, says Jean-Paul Cluzel, president of Radio France International, one of the French companies looking to get a piece of the action.
The network's debut is expected in fall 2004. "Much too late to cover the Battle of Baghdad. But still time, perhaps, to roll out a documentary about the long, cozy relationship between Chirac and Saddam Hussein," snickers Forbes.
Our first suggestion: There's already a Fox News Network, so how about Weasel News Network? |
