On
Midterm
Eve, Of Faux
Fed Meetings,
UN Scribes'
Campaign Cash,
VOA
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 3 --
On the eve of
the US midterm
elections,
when
President
Barack Obama
issued a
read-out of
his meeting
with the
Federal
Reserve's
chair Janet
Yellen citing
economic grown
and strong
regulation,
dubious in the
wake of the
predatory
lending
meltdown and
the Fed's
Goldman Sachs
/ Segarra
tapes, some
irregularities
are even
more clear.
How
can mainstream
media
purporting to
cover the
election make
campaign
contributions
at the same
time? Inner
City Press,
reporting on
this
from the UN,
notes that the
past and
seemingly
future
president of
the UN
Correspondents
Association Giampaolo
Pioli is
undeniably a
campaign
contributor
even as he
publishes
political and
electoral
“analysis” in
writing and on
video
here, here and here
(albeit
with only
seven views.)
Pioli writes
for
Poligrafici
Editoriale
Group and its
Quotidiano
Nazionale, La
Nazione, Il
Resto de
Carlino, Il
Giorno and
Quotidiano.net?
The companies'
Stefania Dal
Rio was asked
about this,
but after
confirming
receipt, never
responded.
Is
this ethical?
Well, the
editor of the
Boston Globe
Martin Baron,
among many
others, opines
that "It is
simply not
appropriate
for
any journalist
to make a
campaign
contribution."
But
this is at the
UN, where
Pioli also
rented one of
his apartments
to
Palitha
Kohona, the
ambassador of
Sri Lanka, and
then used his
position as
UNCA president
to get the Sri
Lankan
government's
war
crimes denial
film “Lies
Agreed To”
screened
inside the UN, video here.
When
Inner City
Press reported
on the
screening and
the previous
financial
relationship,
Pioli told
Inner City
Press he would
get it thrown
out
of the UN.
Soon, Voice
of America
wrote to the
UN demanding
the
“review”
of Inner City
Press' accreditation,
here.
These
documents, it
should be
said, were
obtained under
the Freedom of
Information
Act.
But
at the UN,
which as noted
by the new Free UN Coalition for Access has no
FOIA, nothing
has
yet been
reformed.
These are your
tax dollars at
work. Watch
this
site.
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