____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:36 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> France set to experience a revolution in public broadcast television
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| French president Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban advertising on public
>>| television and replace the income stream with a tax on mobile phones and
>>| Internet accounts. "Our national television must provide quality and access
>>| to culture; it must not be shaped solely by commercial considerations,"
>>| said Sarkozy in Paris on Tuesday.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/101533/from/rss09
>>
>
> Actually, I think this might be a more uniquely French perspective on
> things. He's completely wrong about this, of course, and likely to fall
> foul of the EU, too, if he attempts this. Traditional commercial
> television broadcasting is pretty much over, of course, but there will
> always be a slot for public service broadcasting, so long as it's done
> the right way, not as has been done to the BBC recently, which is
> something of a total fiasco.
Have you read about his kiss-kiss with Microsoft execs and his mutual
favour-giving? The guys smells like corruption and he's very pro-IPR and some
say anti-FOSS. I don't like him.
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