Word: texier
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...Although American papers are facing a direr situation at the moment, their managers have been so much more flexible and innovative in responding than France's rigid media," Texier says. "Besides, American dailies started with far bigger markets and much more money than French papers did, so their margin for recovery is larger too." That may leave the French wishing they could go even further in promoting a peculiarly Gallic solution: more holidays...
...pressure they've come under from free papers has led dailies to consider similar practices as they seek to react to falling ad revenues and the threat from the Internet," says Jean-Clément Texier, a media expert and founder of the Compagnie financière de communication consulting group in Paris. "Of course, readers initially react by saying it's a terrible move that breaks French tradition and deprives them of their paper. But since a huge portion of French dailies come in the morning mail - which doesn't operate on holidays - will anyone really miss getting those...
...papers offer full news coverage anyway on their websites, as Libé did Thursday. That migration to the Web risks trapping French dailies in a dilemma their U.S. peers are already caught in: a proliferation of Internet-savvy readers unwilling to pay again for the original paper product. Indeed, Texier thinks whatever its current agony, the U.S. newspaper industry stands a better shot of coming out of this period alive than its French counterpart. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...languages, such as Breton, a Celtic language akin to Welsh that is desperately struggling for survival. France persistently refuses to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, thus combating at home a cultural diversity that it eloquently advocates for the rest of the world. How hypocritical! Marcel Texier Maurepas, France