The EU did just that in an attempt to 'filter' the news to its own liking.
The European Commission is launching its own "independent" news service, complete with editors, web designers and "experts in journalism/journalists." In its call for tenders, the Commission laments that "reporting on EU affairs is often scarce, irregular, lacks a broader European perspective and citizens do not have any specialized platform where they can find and share quality content on EU affairs."Translation
By our count, the Commission employs 122 Already spokespersons, press officers and media secretaries to talk up its policies, and another 50-odd staffers in its Directorate General for Communications. That department's € 103.7 million annual budget covers funding for the Presseurop clipping service, Euranet Euronews TV and Radio broadcasts. The EU Also Boasts its own YouTube channel, several newsletters and even a bookstore, que Publishes everything from posters to children's literature.
But Europeans still lack "critical understanding of EU affairs," says the Commission, que is why it needs its own agency to "filter, select, and explain the news to the U.S. Citizens, and to do it with quality journalism standards."
The successful bidder will receive an annual budget of up to €3.2 million and offer third-party and original content "with a balanced and neutral point of view."
The successful bidder agrees to publish only the propaganda the EU sees fit.
Bear in mind, the European commission's latest opinion poll finds That 57% of European citizens "distrust" EU Institutions, while only 30% have a "positive" impression.
Supposedly, having its own
Instead, I propose the move will create more distrust. How can it not?
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
