The one really great thing on Euronews is the "No Comment" segment, which speaks louder than any words, especially badly spoken ones. Two major problems with Euronews are 1) the news coverage is totally superficial, without the remotest analysis in depth, a minor exception being the strangely titled "Brussels, My Love" program which at least presents some kind of panel discussion, with at least some sensible questions put by the (Irish female) presenter.2) Worst of all, the speakers are appallingly, abysmally awful at speaking in the English language. They seem without exception to be non native English speakers, which does not have to be a bad thing, except that they seem to recruited perversely as the worst possible available, with pronunciation, phrasing, voices and accents usually more like Disney animated characters than actual human people. Is it possible these voices are artificially generated?? Certainly no English language speakers sound like them. Tonight, 27th Jan 2024, a female speaker, talking about the suspension of funding to UNRWA in Palestine, incredibly spoke the words "the who chief said...etc", oblivious to the meaning of the acronym "WHO", or its correct "W-H-O." pronunciation, as if the written phrase "the WHO chief etc...", was being read out either by a disabled person or by a robot.For an English language service it is essential that speakers be native English speakers, for the benefit of both its English language viewers naturally, and even more importantly for its foreign viewers who will learn much more correct English by hearing it spoken correctly, rather than by unnatural sounding speakers which obviously only perpetuates the errors of these speakers.Why then does Euronews seemingly go to extreme lengths, as if as a deliberate policy, to select and recruit almost exclusively the worst and most unnatural English speakers it can find ???
