"The coverage of the Iraq war in some French media was almost cartoonish in its opposition"

reports John Fund as he discusses France's CII satellite TV station, the planned, government-funded "CNN à la française"…

…the French belief that they are losing what Mr. Chirac calls "the battle of footage" to Anglo-Saxon media behemoths is absurd. The message put out by U.S. and British media outlets isn't unified, and to the extent that is true, the output is hostile to much of U.S. and British foreign policy and certainly to President Bush. An independent inquiry found that the BBC had twisted its reportage in a reckless attempt to discredit Prime Minister Tony Blair's Iraq policy.

…France will have to be careful in the message it puts out on its new version of CNN. Jean-Pierre Tailleur, the author of a book that harshly criticizes the French media, says the coverage of the Iraq war in some French media was almost cartoonish in its opposition. "They minimized the atrocities of Saddam's regime and presented Bush as a criminal on the same level as Saddam and Hitler," he wrote.

(Merci à FH)

Check out Jean-Pierre Tailleur's website (while intellectuals and media alike complain about la malbouffe, he complains about le maljournalisme…) and one of his articles in English…