Comments on: Europarltv pumps out Strasbourg propaganda

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:55:20 +0000

Got to say I like the sub-Euronews whooshy music that introduces each section even if I’ve not had the patience to watch a whole six minute item…

By: Giacomo

Giacomo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:14:52 +0000

Personally I do not find it so bad. Maybe that specific video was not so good and neutral, but I have watched other videos and I didn’t find them so bad.

I hope that day by day the quality will grow and a much wider range of opinions will be well represented.

Anyway I think it is a very good start point: it is the first time someone try to create a TV broadcasting multi-language content through and about Europe. If this will become an example which other media enterprises will follow we’ll be able to have a space for the growing of an European public opinion on an European level and not only at a national one.

By: Julien Frisch

Julien Frisch — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:35:13 +0000

The question is: Are these interviews done by request of the parliamentarians or on the initiative of Euparltv? In other words, are the parliamentarians starting to use their broadcasting service to spread their message, or is the web TV trying to pass its “own” message?

By: Ralf Grahn

Ralf Grahn — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:16:44 +0000

Jon,

The new channel seems to be as credible as a press conference launched on-line, which means that it may offer some facts and viewpoints (represented proportionally) to serve as raw material for real journalists, including bloggers.

But the Council – the most powerful institution – is going to continue to be the real black hole in EU communications, transparency, openness and accountability as long as the union is based primarily on member states instead of its citizens.

By: Brusselsblogger

Brusselsblogger — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:09:40 +0000

You are right with this specific story. I think that the EP will have a hard time in the coming months with regard to the editorial neutrality.

But I hope that this will not be the only debate that it stimulates but also one that is the about topics discussed in the EP. I think that the TV project can have a real impact. In the end, controversy can only be good for Brussels.