Hallelujah! The Chattering Classes is risen! Contrary to the testimony of at least one heretic, we haven’t disappeared. Rather, we’ve been in the cloisters, deep in thought, contemplating the hopelessly dysfunctional European media cosmos…
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EURONEWS COMES TO JESUS
As Viktor Orbán recently discovered, “it is always darkest before the Resurrection”, which brings us to his favourite media outlet: Euronews. It’s been a difficult few months for the EU-financed television channel.
First, we dropped this exposé, documenting how Euronews’ new ownership has transformed it into an influence network for authoritarian regimes. The report won wide notice, including in Germany, where some have begun to ask why the von der Leyen Commission continues to fund (to the tune of €350 million in the last 15 years alone) a network of questionable journalistic value that has struggled to build a core TV audience, much less…
