Launch of the New Channel, France 24

As stated in the article, President Jacque Chirac launched international TV channel France 24 in December 2006 to counterbalance the prevailing Anglosaxon and Arabic perspectives (paradigms?) regarding the coverage of the war in Iraq. Nonetheless, the secrete ambitions of the French President were certainly going beyond the mere coverage of the Iraqi crisis. He probably expected the channel to become a global media player in a close future; a status that would then position France 24 as a direct concurrent of transnational media corporation like BBC, CNN or even Al-Jazeera. In that aim, France 24 will soon start broadcasting its programs in Arabic, English and French to expand the scope of its audience. This is by all means a good thing as France 24 will again diversify the international media landscape dominated for too long by Anglosaxon media corporations.