As
Arms Trade
Treaty Failed,
New Low by UN
Cowardice
Association
UNCA
UNITED
NATIONS, March
29 -- While diplomats
milled around
UN Conference
Room
1 waiting
to learn how
their lack
of consensus
on the Arms
Trade
Treaty
would be
phrased, what
were the
leaders of the
UN
Cowardice
Association
up to?
Using
their
anonymous
social media
accounts
to try to
claim a
victory for
their role in
the UN's raid
of Inner City
Press' office
on March 18,
at which UNCA
president
Pamela Falk of
CBS took
photographs.
Then
anonymous UNCA
leader
“Concerned UN
Reporter”
passed
photographs
including of
Inner City
Press'
bookshelf to
BuzzFeed. This
is UNCA:
the UN's
Censorship
Alliance.
What kind of
media association
cheers on and
ghoulishly
photographs
the raid on a
press office?
One whose time
is done.
Their
new anonymous
social media
accounts are
associated
with most
members
of the UNCA
Executive
Committee:
Louis
Charbonneau of
Reuters, Tim
Witcher of
Agence France
Press, Melissa
Kent of CBC,
Syliane Zehil
of
L'Oriente
Le Jour,
even Barbara
Plett of the
BBC and others
pictured
below.
There's
also
former
Executive
Committee
member Margaret
Besheer of
Voice
of
America,
and former
former Evelyn
Leopold. But
absentee
president
Falk, after
screaming on
February 22
that she
didn't know
which of
her board
members were
behind the
accounts, has
done nothing
to find
out. Is
she resigning?
Ban's
UNCA Lunch of
the Lost, Feb
7, 2013,
credit Evan
Schneider,
UNPhoto.
From left:
OSSG's Del
Buey; Denis
Fitzgerald of
Saudi Press
Agency;
OSSG's
Nesirky;
Melissa Kent
of CBC;
Sylviane Zehil
of L'Orient le
Jour; Tim
Witcher of
AFP; Ali
Barada of
An-Nahar; Ban
Ki-moon,
Kahraman
Halicelik of
Turkish Radio
& TV;
Pamela S. Falk
of CBS;
Lou
Charbonneau of
Reuters;
Bouchra
Benyoussef of
Maghreb Arab
Press;
Yasuomi Sawa
of Kyodo News;
Masood Haider
of Dawn;
Unknown;
Zhenqiu
Gu of Xinhua;
Stephane
Dujarric of UN
DPI
Falk
has only
issued a legal
threat to
Inner City
Press, from
her
CBSNews.com
e-mail
account, not
to question
why she took
photos of
the March 18
raid by the UN
Department of
Public
Information.
What Inner
City Press
writes is on
the
record. The UN
Cowards'
Association,
most of them
Big Media,
acts by
anonymous
messages.
DPI
is aware of
the fake
social media
accounts and
claimed to
take them
seriously. DPI's
Stephane
Dujarric
is followed by
a recently
created
one. But so
what? Watch
this site.
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