Radio France denounces capitalism: State-owned voice calls it 'social disease'

World Net Daily ^ | 4/23/08 | Franklin Raff

[FrPR]

PARIS, France – Nicolas Sarkozy, the America-loving conservative, may be the new president, but he has some work to do changing the culture of a country largely in love with socialism.

The front door of the European news bureau of the state-owned Radio France displays a bumper sticker reading "Capitalism … the social disease."

Recently, WND correspondent Franklin Raff visited the impressive edifice of Radio France, located at the Maison de la Radio, a round building situated in the center of Paris.

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All radio stations were nationalized when Nazi Germany invaded... (snip)

When France was liberated by the Allies in 1944, the new government retained a monopoly on broadcasting.

It was not until 1955 that the French heard any commercial, non-government broadcasts – at first only from the Sarre region of Germany, which had been freed from French occupation that year. Later, in 1981, President Francois Mitterand pushed the first licensing of non-state radio – though initially it was all subsidized by taxpayers. Private radio as it is known in the U.S. was unknown in post-war France until 1986.

[FrPR]

[The Duke]

Capitalism is the *only* social force on planet earth that simultaneously compels those who provide products and services to deliver higher quality for lower prices.

I can't imagine that any sane person would be in favor of limiting that(!)

[tired1]

what is there to expect? we sent our soldiers to Europe to make the world save for communists for decades.

“We’re fighting the wrong army” - Patton.

[LasVegasMac]

France.....still planting shade trees

[VOA]

The front door of the European news bureau of the state-owned Radio
France displays a bumper sticker reading "Capitalism … the
social disease."

Sarkozy should take them up on their complaint.
And slash all the salaries at Radio France to a few Euros a week
below poverty wages.
Everyone working for the same miserable wage, regardless of
their abilities AND responsibilities.

That should be one way to kill Radio France, except for a few
marginalized Marxist "true believers".

[quadrant]

Soldiers before Patton came to the same conclusion. At the end of WWI, almost all the troops returned the US. However. a small cadre of troops, mostly all officers, remained in Europe to help with the peace accords. Within a year the common sentiment was that the US entered the war on the wrong side.

[SkyDancer]

No wonder France’s economy is where it is ...

[SES1066]

This is the mindset of ALL true bureaucrats, the larger the government pie the more crumbs there are in government service. These parasites abhor the marketplace where intelligence and guts make an advantage over a bureaucratic edict.

Remember this in November, this kind of thinking is the dream of Soros and his ilk.

[VOA]

Private radio as it is known in the U.S. was unknown in post-war
France until 1986.

Now there's probably one reason why The UN (and socialists/"liberals")
want to strangle free expression on the Internet.

If the French listen to Rush, Michael Medved, Larry Elder and
other "talk radio" luminaries, they might as well be listening to
threatening messages from another planet!

[rightwingcrazy]

Why is that sign in English?

[Always Right]

And this is different than NPR.

[afortiori]

Hmmm. What's the word for a another parasite that also tries to kill its host?

Parasitoid.—A parasite which kills its host; generally used interchangeably with “parasite” in biological control.

No, actually I was thinking of NPR.

[donna]

Then why are we getting pharmaceuticals from China?

[Blood of Tyrants]

France’s unemployment rate typically runs about 9 or 10%. And that is with law that prevent people from working more than 35 hours a week on the if you work more, other people are going to be unemployed.

[Calvin Locke]

Lawyers.

And runaway juries

And congresscritters on the take from the tort "industry".

Heck, didn't VP Gore shakedown the tort industry while blocking tort reform? wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say-no-more, say-no-more...

[SunkenCiv]

Nostalgia For Paris
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[Atlantic Friend]

Why is that sign in English?

Amazing. After the usual and predictable knee-jerk reactions, after outlandish claims that the US should have entered war on Imperial Germany’s or even Nazi Germany’s side and attacked democracies instead (wow, brilliant, that, why let the Lusitania or Dachau stand in the way of a great friendship indeed), somebody notices that this is indeed NOT a French sticker...

Thank you, rightwingcrazy, for having brought some sanity back to this thread.

Radio-France is indeed a nest of Leftist idiots, which annoys me to no end, but to their credit they never said “oh, we should have fought on the Nazis’ side instead”

[FrPR]

I don’t understand. Why does it matter whether the sign is in english or french? You are looking at the front door of the Pole - Chaine Europe, the European news bureau of RFI, Radio France International. Nobody is suggesting that the journalists printed the sign (sticker), rather, what is remarkable is that such a sign be right on the FRONT DOOR of an international news bureau (within an enormous and complicated broadcast and performance outfit, Radio France.) It’s not in someone’s cubicle, it’s not in the kitchen, it’s stuck to the front door of the news bureau, facing out. Do you think it is there by accident?

[darkness78]

“Why is that sign in English?”

So Worldnetdaily can report it.
I have not heard or read anything in French news about this.

Looks strange to me.