| Press Freedom Dinner Near UN
Misses Guterres Censorship But CPJ Rightly
Notes Epstein Coverage
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Thread
BBC
The
Times (UK)
Honduras
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 21 – When the
Committee to Protect
Journalists held a black-tie
fundraising three blocks from
the United Nations on November
21, inevitably in attendance
was Inner City Press which was
roughe dup and has been banned
from the UN for 506 days and
counting for reporting on UN
corruption.
Still, there were moving
speakers, from Julie Brown
having exposed Jeffrey Epstein
- even as UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres covers up
dozens of child rapes by UN
peacekeepers and refuses Press
questions on them - and
journalists from Nicaragua.
Twitter thread here.
But
what, some asked, about the
crackdown on journalism and
evidence-shares in next door
Nicaragua? As intent as CPJ
leadership seemed on sticking
their finger in the eye of the
current DC administration,
making ex-Fox Shepard Smith
their M.C., to focus on Daniel
Ortega and not Juan Orlando
Hernandez, the narco president
of Honduras, seemed retro.
So
too the CPJ board chair saying
that it would be impossible or
even unfair to boycott Saudi
Arabia for the murder of Jamal
Khashoggi. Who decides, when
money is on the line? Well,
during the tuxedo-ed crowd's
dinner there were ads
including for the corporate
law firm Debevoise &
Plimpton.
Who does CPJ
think they serve?
Inner City Press,
now covering the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District daily while in exile
from the UN with no help at
all from CPJ, will continue on
this - and on any and all SDNY
cases. Watch this site.
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