Talking with a friend in a bar last night about the need for pan-Belgian media. @lesoir and @destandaard are all very well but (particularly if the next state reform gives us a whole-country electoral constituency like NL) there’s still too little across the taalgrens.
@LeVif and @Knack I think share some stories and things like @VRT_Flandreinfo & LENA are great but it would be good to have something that’s bilingual default like @el_Periodico in Catalunya (with identical editions in Catalan and Castilian) – perhaps even in FR/NL/EN.
The floods and covid have shown, I think, that people in Flanders and Wallonia aren’t just thrown together by circumstance – shared history, families and culture also matter. And pooled resources could make for better reporting on international issues too.
Finally, Europe’s capital could also use a better home town paper. Anyways, I appreciate the media economics (let alone politics) probably doesn’t open up a path to this, but it feels like a big gap.
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 4 September 2021. View the original thread.
