Talk:France 24

France 24

"The French government hopes that such a channel will be able to counter the Anglophone sphere of influence with the BBC, CNN, Sky News and VOA, which grew in importance with the Iraq war as America & Britain were on the allied side."

This sounds like anybody else, including France and my own country, Canada, were on the 'other' side, whatever that really means. It really must be reworded somehow. --RobNS 20:36, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

The re-word it rather than just gripe. 81.151.33.75 09:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

"The Daily Telegraph claimed on 16 March 2006 that only 4 hours per day will be broadcast in French, with the rest broadcast in English."

This is wrong. There will be two channels, one entirely in French and one in English with four hours of French. The journalist how wrote the article in The Daily Telegraph has clearly been confused. 80.202.239.135 14:31, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

It may be incorrect but it is simply quoting the press (which isn't always correct naturally). Perhaps it should be italicised or put in quotes, I'm not familiar with such style guidelines so I'll leave it to somebody else.

Why on earth would an encyclopedia want to quote a random newsbite? Especially if it's not correct... Wijnand 16:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, we rely on sources to write our articles... --Delirium 22:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Not sources who are contradicted by dozens of other sources. I was shocked when I read this Telegraph article by the ignorance of the journalist. Apparently, he was just looking for a cheap shot against the French. --Aquarelle 07:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Delirium: Note the word random in my question. :) Also, to me, using sources means you write a readable piece of text and add a reference to (or just mention) your source, it does not mean adding a separate heading for it, which suggests it would be more than just your source, but instead would be a shocking event that has been in the news, which is interesting in and of itself. Anyway. -- Wijnand 10:22, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Official Website

I have corrected the offical website to france24.com rather than france24.fr. You will see that france24.fr redirects to france24.com anyway so there shouldn't be any disputes. I also removed the 'French' sign next to it. The final website will be in English as well. --Mgill 08:52, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

TV5MONDE vs France 24

Apart from the language, what's the difference? Aren't they both available through sattelite? Maybe such a clarification should be added. --Michkalas 15:01, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

As far as I know, and really, I don't know that much about it, one (France 24) is a news channel, the other a French-language channel with broad programming. Wijnand 16:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

It would be like comparing CBS to CNN. --Bob 16:44, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, then. I was trying to figure out what's new about France 24, because the media presented the first French satellite channel, with global reach and so on. It seems that the really new think is the use of English language -and, of course, that it is a news only channel. Thank you for the clarifications. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Michkalas (talk • contribs) 17:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

Protected

I have protected the page due to the edit war that was raging here. Please discuss what needs to be done with the article here, not on dozens of user talk pages. Kusma (討論) 09:31, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Please discuss the article content. For editor behavior, please see also WP:DR. Kusma (討論) 09:57, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

if someone could add that to the page

thx Divol 10:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Qu'est-ce que vous voulez qu'on ajoute ? --Aquarelle 10:18, 7 December 2006 (UTC)