Paris behind plans for a French CNN

The French government is throwing its weight behind a new idea for the birth of an international television news network that would compete with CNN.

For the moment, with no round-the-clock news station, France is not able to express its antiwar position in the way that the US expresses his pro war stance on CNN.

This "CNN à la française" was first announced during the election campaign of the French President last year. The government recently made a call to accelerate its crea...