After
Photographing
UN Raid, Falk
of CBS &
UNCA Sends ICP
a Legal Threat
About Story
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNdisclosed
Location,
March
23 -- After Pamela Falk
of CBS took
photographs
during the
non-consensual
search of
Inner City
Press office
by the UN on
March 18, and
photographs
were published
by BuzzFeed on
March 22,
Inner City
Press posed a
question.
Why
did Falk, who
is also the
president of
the UN
Correspondents
Association
which has
tried to get
Inner City
Press thrown
out of the UN,
“take and
presumptively
give to
BuzzFeed
photographs
from Inner
City Press'
office?”
Before
the BuzzFeed
story, which
came out
Friday
afternoon and
which noted
that Falk
declined to
comment, Inner
City Press had
asked in
writing and in
the March 19
UN noon
briefing why
the president
of UNCA, Falk,
was allowed by
the UN to be
taking
photographs of
the raid.
Falk
never answered
that question;
nor to the UN,
even when it
was
re-iterated to
UN official
Stephane
Dujarric in
writing.
Now
now on
Saturday
afternoon, Pam
Falk who is a
lawyer has
sent not
answer but a
legal threat:
From:
Falk,
Pamela
@cbsnews.com
Date: Sat, Mar
23, 2013 at
2:28 PM
Subject: Inner
City Press
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
Cc: "Falk,
Pamela"
@cbsnews.com
Dear
Mr.
Lee:
On
March
22, you
published the
following
statement,
referring to
me:
“Why
did she take,
and
presumptively
give to
BuzzFeed,
photographs
from inside
Inner City
Press'
office?”
I
did not give
photographs to
BuzzFeed or to
anyone else,
and I did not
take the
photographs
that BuzzFeed
published.
Please
cease
and desist
from
publishing
statements
which are
either
inaccurate or
cast my
actions in a
false light.
Pamela
Falk
There.
We've
run it in
full, less
than an hour
after receipt.
But in what
light CAN we
cast Falk's
ghoulish
photographing
of the raid of
Inner City
Press' office
on March 18?
Falk has had
numerous
opportunities
to clarify or
just explain
why she took
the
photographs,
but has not.
If she appears
in a negative
light it is
largely Falk's
fault.
She
bears other
responsibility
--
presumptively,
of course. The
UN has denied,
through
Dujarric,
giving the
photographs to
BuzzFeed. They
were given by
an anonymous
“Concerned UN
Reporter” who
is then quoted
defending
UNCA.
Falk
is the
president of
UNCA. Just as
with her UNCA
Executive
Committee
members
defacing
flyers of the
Free UN
Coalition for
Access, and
setting up
anonymous
social media
accounts to
try to
undermine
FUNCA and
Inner City
Press, Falk
bears some
responsibility,
that no tin
horn cease and
desist letter
with the term
of art “false
light” can
solve.
Falk, as we've
reported,
claimed to
Inner City
Press on
February 22
that she was
advised by
lawyers --
herself? --
that for Inner
City Press to
contact media
organizations
including hers
to ask their
policies
"might
constitute a
crime."
Why
has UNCA under
Falk gone even
further into
the gutter,
with false
social media
accounts?
Again, why DID
Falk take
photographs of
the UN's raid
on Inner City
Press' office,
and search of
its papers, on
March 18?
And
what steps has
Falk as UNCA
president
taken to
identify which
UNCA “leader,”
if as she says
not herself,
obtained the
photographs
taken during
the raid and
forwarded
them,
anonymously,
to BuzzFeed?
We will have
more on this.
UNCA's in the
gutter - but
CBS and CBS
News are
hitting new
lows daily.
Watch this
site.
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