The main task of Codice, he says, is to educate French citizens about the way the economy works so they are better informed and less hostile. The council plans a slick new website, pamphlets and campaigns in universities and schools. Training journalists, says Fauconnier, is vital because economic stories are often covered in a one-sided way on French TV. "When a factory closes or sheds jobs, for example, there are lots of emotional interviews with angry workers, but rarely any analysis of the reasons behind the company's decision."
The council plans a slick new website, pamphlets and campaigns in universities and schools.
Training journalists, says Fauconnier, is vital because economic stories are often covered in a one-sided way on French TV.
"When a factory closes or sheds jobs, for example, there are lots of emotional interviews with angry workers, but rarely any analysis of the reasons behind the company's decision."
I wonder who's funding them? Somehow I don't think they're doing it out of the kindness of their hearts and a need to re-educate errant journalists.
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I may point out criticism of the US but it is a place where people can still come to and pursue their lives relatively freely when compared to other countries. The only class system in America is built on how much money you have which can make it possible for anyone to join as opposed to countries like the UK and France whose class systems are based on priviledge and which family you are part of.
the top 300,000 Americans earn more income than the bottom 150,000,000 Americans.
Delete "earn": insert "get"....
Of course, the United States is not vulnerable to the violent, total closing-down of the system that followed Mussolini's march on Rome or Hitler's roundup of political prisoners. Our democratic habits are too resilient, and our military and judiciary too independent, for any kind of scenario like that.
And I'd be more impressed, frankly, if she'd made these points in an American newspaper rather than a British one. But that is unlikely to happen, for reasons that probably have less to do with Naomi Wolf than with American newspapers....
Besides, for all our faults, we DO have a viable opposition party and a wealth of great possibilities to take over the country in 2008.
* I'm adjusting these figures to reflect that France has about 1/5 the population of the U.S.
