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24.07.11 by e.petersen
Proposals for improving euronews !
I am a Danish citizen but lives permanently in France. I daily watch euronews TV in English, and I am generally very satisfied with the international information which euronews broadcasts.
Unfortunately, in a large part of the News there are two speakers talking at once! The main speaker speaks English, but in the background a specialist or a politician is talking in French, German or another language. Because I – like many of euronews viewers – am not a native English speaking person, it can be very difficult to understand all the information. Therefore, please only have one person talking at the same time!
19.08.11
Dear viewer,
We have to have some presence of the analyst/politician’s voice in the audio track, but it needs to be carefully mixed in such a way that it doesn’t make the journalist’s commentary difficult to hear. It’s a question of balancing the two audio elements correctly, and there are guidelines that journalists and technicians adhere to to ensure an acceptable ‘mix’. It would be useful to have particular examples of stories where you feel this was not achieved.
Head of English Service
22.07.11 by jmgoog81
Dear euronews.net,
I am currently living in New York, USA. I have been enjoying your news channel on the air. But online, it seems i can’t get to see euronews live streaming on your website. If it is possible you can unblock it ASAP so I can continue to enjoy your fine news channel?
Thank you!
Jon Gordon.
19.08.11
Dear viewer,
Unfortunately we can’t provide livestreaming on our website in the US because of contractual restrictions, and it appears that will be the situation for the foreseeable future. However, you can see most of the TV stories online by clicking on ‘bulletin’. Head of English Service
18.07.11 by walzet1
Hi euronews!
Do you have any plans to broadcast your channel on croatian?
18.07.11
Dear viewer There are no plans at the moment for a Croatian service, but euronews remains open to all proposals and partnership ideas. Head of English Service
17.07.11 by pauld
You mentioned that the Frebnch Banks passed the stress test.
You failed to mention that the Maltese bank Bank O f Valletta passed the test by 10 %, double the required benchmark.
But as usual, its WHERE IT HAPPENS NOT WHAT HAPPENS. To euronews, French, Spanish Turkish and Russia affairs dominate all other news !! Even it is silly news !!
That reflects the influence of the stake holders and the journalists at euronews !!!!
14.07.11 by spider-35
I really appreciate the quantity of actual news that you broadcast. I watch your programming through MHz on a local digital PBS channel in the United States. To be quite frank the news coverage offered by American news channels is usually slanted garbage: Fox News on the extreme right and everyone else on the left, not an ounce of reason to be found in the lot.
Unfortunately, among other very nasty consequences that might occur if the United States government defaults on it’s debt there is a real chance that funding for Public Television (PBS) will be cut. European, and for that matter, World perspectives on what is occurring around the globe will be unavailable to virtually all Americans. This serves to only isolate people and guarantee that America will be filled with only propaganda which will be sponsored by big money to promote big money.
I hope that the international community will have some sense of alarm at the potential of such a development. When what is promoted as “truth” is determined by a corrupt elite class in any society you have the seeds for extreme forms of government (facism, communism, etc.) planted.
11.07.11 by kinnis
I have read your report about the explosion in the naval base in Cyprus.How “ignorant” the reporter was to report scorching temperatures as the possible cause!!!!! When the explosion took place at the base ,the time was 4.00 am in the morning!!! Hold your horse please and gather your facts before you send them out for Gods sake. This was a delibrate act of sabotaze and from what we know these 98 containers of explosives had been stored there since 2009.They have been confiscated from an Iranian ship going to Syria.Illegal Gun smuggling from Iran?? It sounds to me like the new triangle Iran ,Turkey & Lebanese Hezbollah are alive & ready to turn the Spring Arab revolt into a middle east war with Israel & its newly discovered Natural Gas Basins.Just food for thought !!!!!! The dead European citizens from Cyprus ????who cares .It is called collateral damage !!!! Interpool should take over the investigation & bring the party responsible to Justice.
15.07.11
Dear viewer,
The text you refer to says the explosives were reportedly kept exposed in scorching heat and that they exploded. It does not say this was the cause. Head of English Service
11.07.11 by taqmaq
Isәnmesez!
Hello!
In two national republic of Russian Federation – Tatarstan and Bashkortostan – has a confrontation of the population on the study official languages of these republics. The native population in favor of mandatory(obligatory) study Republic’s official languages in the state schools, and Russian origin’s population – is strictly against their study of their children.
In Ufa city was such a case: a Russian boy refused to attend classes of official Bashkir language. He was invited to rate “good”, if he at least learn the numerals from 1 to 10 in the Bashkir. He and his parents refused the offer and demand the abolition of (quote) “unnecessary foreign language to us,” all schools in the republic.
Perhaps this material could be the basis for any release of euronews on tolerance and the development of bilingualism and multilingualism, which is highly developed in the EU, but in Russia Federation – this positive experience is virtually ignored.
For example, in comparison, as this question is the learning of areas with several official languages, delivered in an officially bilingual Catalonia, Wales, Brussels, Finland.
07.07.11 by rodri9osilva
Whether at home or in the office, even on the go via mobile, I refer to euronews to know what is happening in Europe and around the world on various levels.
A happy viewer,
rms
05.07.11 by s.ware
Your benign coverage of European issues always makes me smile. Nothing contentious; always positive. However you are doing the EU no favours. There are still lots of cynics out there. Here’s why. I wrote to three EU members of parliament. I did not receive either an acknowledgement or a reply from any of them. When I questioned this months later I was told the following – ‘Unfortunately, there is no statutory or legal obligation for an MEP to reply to anyone within a specific time frame.
An MEP is therefore free to decide if and when he/she will reply to an e-mail or any other form of correspondence.’
Frankly I was staggered. This level of arrogance and bad-manners is why people believe what they do about MEP’s and their ‘hard work’ in Brussels. Respect has to be earned; if you show none you get none!
I am assuming this complaint will not make onto your message boards.
15.07.11
Dear viewer,
It would have been useful if you had supplied examples of what you consider to be our “benign” coverage of EU issues, so in the absence of that all we can do is refute this rather sweeping claim. If seems you are under the impression there is some kind of institutional link between euronews and the European Union. There isn’t. We have contracts with the Commission to supply some services — programming strands and language services — but we are not an organ of the EU. We are more than happy to host your comments, but we cannot account for the lack of communication from MEPs. Head of English Service
28.06.11 by sergio
PLEASE DO NOT WRITE PROTESTERS (IN ATHNES, GREECE) THESE ARE RIOTERS
PLEASE DO NOT DEFAMATE US EVEN MORE THAN WE DESERVE