This page brings together all the stories on France that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.

Articles 1 to 9 of 9 (with the most recent first)

Public Broadcasting Worldwide
How can public broadcasters remain independent from government control but ensure adequate funding? A comprehensive new online book examining systems in six countries offers some answers. ALSO: See the MediaChannel Special Report: Global Public Broadcasting
From UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector, 1 December 2000.
> also about: Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom, Business, Policy/Law, Public Broadcasting, Radio Television

Vive Le Magazine!
The Web has brought a French mag celebrating the digital revolution back from the dead. Perhaps )Transfert's new-economy optimism wasn't so blind after all.
From Online Journalism Review, 28 September 2000.
> also about: Business, Technology, Magazines Multimedia/Internet

Protected Pictures
A new French law prohibits publication of photographs that might "hurt the dignity" of their subjects. Kimberly Connif reports that this isn't just bad news for photogs selling pix.
From Brill's Content, 9 August 2000.
> also about: Freedom of Expression, News Coverage Policy/Law

Look Out Above
Two writers "trying to retell History, as seen from below." That's what developed when Günter Grass and Pierre Bourdieu used two European dailies to consider the evolving role of the public intellectual.
From The Nation magazine, 3 July 2000.
> also about: Germany, Cultural Impacts, Freedom of Expression, Personalities Books

Small Time Male
Woody Allen's earning praise for his lightweight new film "Small Time Crooks," but last year's Oscar-nominated "Sweet and Lowdown" provided keener insight into the director's unsettling attitudes toward women. Alain Brassart writes that French critics have blindly ignored the auteur's misogyny.
From Le Monde Diplomatique, 1 May 2000.
> also about: Cultural Impacts, Diversity Film

The Global Media Year Of Our Lives
From Swedish newspapers facing off with neo-Nazis to the grassroots press that coalesced around the WTO summit, from the biggest stories in media news to the biggest stories not seen in the news, Media Channel looks at the mediascape of 1999. In e-mail conversations with News Dissector Danny Schechter, our readers, advisors, contributors, and staff offer their perspectives on the media at the end ...
From The Media Channel, 23 December 1999.
> also about: Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Activism, Audience, Personalities, Multimedia/Internet, Newspapers Television

Robert Kramer: Alt.Media Visionary
When the American filmmaker and alternative media pioneer Robert Kramer died suddenly in France this November, his 31 st film almost completed, the Net was wracked by a spontaneous outpouring of grief. Marginalized in his native country, Kramer was a media guerrilla whose "Newsreel" film crew was the first alternative media group in the '60s to take film equipment into the protest-torn streets...
From The Media Channel, 21 December 1999.
> also about: United States, Activism, Media Arts Film

The Freedom Imperative
This comprehensive study, which surveys public broadcasting in Australia, France, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K., finds three essential ingredients: adequate resources, public accountability and, at the core, independence. Infant democracies face the challenge of protecting public-service media from state control, but for established democracies the influence of the marketplace may pose the gre...
From ARTICLE 19, 1 January 1999.
> also about: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Credibility/Accuracy, Cultural Impacts, Public Broadcasting, Radio Television

Censorship, Maybe?
In the wake of the decision forcing Yahoo to block Nazi material on its French site, a press freedom group asks itself if censorship is ever justified.
From Reporters sans Frontières, .
> also about: Freedom of Expression, Policy/Law Multimedia/Internet

 




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