France's audiovisual policy is wrong

"Television channels that go beyond national borders are sufficiently rare for them to deserve a closer look, especially when they are high quality", explains Laurent Moyse, praising the Franco-German channel Arte along with the French-speaking TV5 Monde. He fears the consequences of French audiovisual policy. "Paris's partners are currently threatening to withdraw their sponsorship, arguing from a Franco-French standpoint in favour of TV5 and France 24 merger, the latter channel having been launched to rival international Anglo-Saxon channels and give a more 'French' view of the world's current affairs ... . The French-speaking partners are not being taken in by this way of proceeding. According to media expert Dominique Wolton, France is committing a mistake: it should ask other partners to invest more rather than to go back thirty years in time."

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