EU propaganda:or how news is supposedto go on the euro-payroll
but stay 'independent'
http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/09/eu-propaganda-or-how-news-is-suppos ed-to-go-on-the-euro-payroll-but-stay-independent.html Euroseptic:
Mary Ellen Synon in Brussels
05 September 2011
Euronews logo wiki This is how it starts: first a European Commission fellow-traveller (in this case, Philippe Cayla, the head of Euronews, the broadcaster of so-called EU perspective news which is 25 percent funded by the commission) identifies a problem' –
which is, according to Cayla, the fact that news broadcasters in Europe are largely depend on advertising and subscription.
Not that Cayla explains why this is a problem -- mind you, it is a problem if you dislike
ideological independence in your news reporting -- except perhaps that more people would rather watch real news put out by these ‘problem’ media organisations than by his own.
Anyway, the Euronews boss proposes a solution to this ‘problem.’
He wants the EU to impose a license fee (ie, a new tax ) on all of us, to be taken by the EU but distributed by independent --
yes, sure --bodies outside the control of national governments.
The money would go to ‘a number ‘of media organisations.
Yes, not to all, just to ‘a number.’
As in, the new tax revenues will go to broadcasters anointed by the eurocrats.
If this idea follows the usual pattern, expect at some point more polls financed by the European commission flags wiki commission which will claim to have identified a desire among ‘citizens of the EU’ – jeez, these people never let up – to be ‘better informed’ about the EU and that, yes, 'EU citizens' would be willing to pay extra tax to be better informed.
‘EU citizens must be better informed’ is code for ‘the wretched little people aren’t buying the propaganda so far.’
You see, whenever it becomes clear that real citizens of real countries in fact want less Europe – evidence the result in almost any treaty referendum you could name – the euro-cult leaders in Brussels never allow themselves to read that result as more evidence that millions of people are very fed up with the EU and want less of it.
Instead the euro-cult leaders insist that the problem is that all of us little people are just not well-informed enough about the alleged wonderfulness of all the things the EU does for them, so the solution must be to spend more on ‘information.’
Otherwise known as propaganda, the annual commission budget for which is estimated by Open Europe to stand at more than £2bn.
And here is something so Brussels. Cayla, the Euronews boss, made his comments in an interview with Euractiv, an on-line journal which is also part-financed by the EU;
the Euractiv reporter doesn't mention until the final paragraph that 'independent' Euronews is 25 percent funded by the Commission, 'to provide coverage of EU affairs with an EU perspective.'
You bet. Or as Euractiv reported it: ‘Only [only?] 25 percent of Euronews’ funding comes from the European Commission, said Cayla, stressing that this allows it to maintain full independence.’ One out of every four euros in their news budget comes from the commission.
That’s what passes for ‘independent’ in Brussels.
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