Defending France-Musique

[amateur51]

That question was purely rhetorical, 'the 'answer' being implied: NO ONE.

Anyway, do keep up - there has never been any such rule and therefore it has never been necessary to suspend it or disregard it pour décourager les autres, encourager les autres, avoir le courage de ses opinions, prendre son courage à deux mains, perdre courage, reprendre courage et ainsi de suite ...

Bristle hath no fury like a moderator asleep at the joystick

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The old BBC Messageboards didn't allow posts in other languages.

[jean]

We used to have great fun trying to circumvent that on the old Word of Mouth board. I seem to have kept this thread:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio4/NF2766781?thread=6261160&skip=0

Though I remember another one which was entirely in Latin.

[french frank]

We used to have great fun trying to circumvent that on the old Word of Mouth board. I seem to have kept this thread:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio4/NF2766781?thread=6261160&skip=0

Though I remember another one which was entirely in Latin.

Brilliant poem De Motore Bo.

[Ockeghem's Razor]

Fortunately the participants in the original posts were not Belgian or one of them might have hurled what Richard Cobb records, from his experience in Brussels in 1944-5, as "the fatal phrase, 'espèce d'architecte', at once followed by the crash of broken glass and the heavy breathing of a first-class brawl."

[amateur51]

The old BBC Messageboards didn't allow posts in other languages.

But this one does

Is this progress?

Or anarchy?

[french frank]

But this one does

Is this progress?

The earliest version of the BBC boards didn't allow web addresses of any sort, as well as no personal contact details. Made things a bit diffy when we set up our website but weren't allowed to tell anyone how to find it - and Google didn't crawl it because no one ever visited it. Now that's yer for you!

"FoR3 is an organisation" we would say in the hope someone would rumble before the mods removed the post because it said FoR3 ('FoR3' was ruled content of 'a commercial nature').

[BBMmk2]

Pardon moi monseiuers et mademe je suis BBM non parlez francais une peu! :(

(Or in other words I wish I could speak French better!!)

Vive La France, vive Royaume Uni! :)

[EdgeleyRob]

Pardon moi monseiuers et mademe je suis BBM non parlez francais une peu! :(

(Or in other words I wish I could speak French better!!)

Vive La France, vive Royaume Uni! :)

Avez vous un cuppa ?

[underthecountertenor]

La Maison de la Radio has been in a state of chaos for over a week. Here is France Musique's fairly frank (sic) explanation. La pelouse est toujours plus vert.... http://www.francemusique.fr/actu-mus...o-france-89427

[vinteuil]

... thanks for that, utct.

Le Monde writes -

http://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2015/03/26/quelles-sont-les-raisons-de-la-greve-a-radio-france_4600909_3236.html?xtmc=radio_france&xtcr=2

[underthecountertenor]

Good article, of course. Thanks, vinteuil.

[Beef Oven!]

Pardon moi monseiuers et mademe je suis BBM non parlez francais une peu! :(

(Or in other words I wish I could speak French better!!)

Une chose à la fois, BBM.

[Nick Armstrong]

Une chose à la fois, BBM.

[vinteuil]

... and some passionate pleading by Philippe Meyer -

http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2015/03/27/philippe-meyer-il-faut-stopper-la-derive-de-radio-france_4602473_3232.html?xtmc=radio_france&xtcr=7

I particularly liked -

"Les dernières années ont vu les chaînes, et notamment France Inter et France Culture, se livrer à une concurrence absurde, exacerbée par des rivalités et des ambitions subalternes. Faute de pouvoir justifier cette rivalité par une politique de programmes, chaque direction s’est arc-boutée sur des sondages dont la moindre variation à la hausse, le plus souvent inférieure à la marge d’erreur de ce type de mesure, est célébrée comme un Austerlitz, à grand renfort de trompette.
Radio France ne peut pas se payer de cette fausse monnaie, ni se complaire dans cette autosatisfaction ampoulée, ni se replier dans une crainte frileuse. Son mérite a toujours été de proposer à ses publics – je tiens au pluriel – des émissions dont ils ne savaient pas encore avoir envie. C’est ce qui a toujours donné une saveur particulière à son succès. Nous sommes une radio d’offre, avec les risques que cela comporte, pas une radio de marketing, même si le savoir-faire de ceux qui étudient les audiences peut nous aider à placer au mieux nos propositions dans la grille des programmes."