UNITED
NATIONS, April
16 -- When
Reuters says
it “got a
statement
Tuesday,”
what does it
mean?
Does it
only mean they
got a
mechanical
reiteration of
something said
to another
media three
days before?
And if Reuters
lies about
this, how
trustworthy
can it be to
the high
frequency
stock traders
who alone keep
it afloat?
Earlier
today
Inner City
Press zeroed
in on a report
by Reuters'
Michelle
Nichols, who
took an answer
at the UN to
Inner City
Press'
questions
about the 126
rapes in
Minova by the
Congolese Army
and tried to
turn
it into a
Reuters story.
UN
envoy Zainab
Bangura told
Inner City
Press that the
UN, as its
stated
policy would
require, has
suspended
support to two
Congolese Army
units involved
in the rapes,
despite an
answer to
Inner City
Press on
Friday that
support
continued.
Immediately
after
Bangura's
answer to
Inner City
Press, it put
the question
to UN
Peacekeeping.
But
then it was
Reuters'
Michelle
Nichols who
reported,
Tuesday
afternoon:
“The
United Nations
said in a
statement on
Tuesday it was
still
supporting
the two
battalions 'in
view of a
number of
recent and
appropriate
actions being
taken by the
authorities.'”
Inner
City Press
asked the UN,
how could you
give Reuters a
“statement”
without
answering
Inner City
Press' earlier
question on
the same
topic?
To
which UN
Peacekeeping
spokesman
Kieran Dwer
replied that
no statement
had been given
to Reuters,
only a re-send
of Friday's
noon briefing
answer to
Inner
City Press.
"From:
Kieran Dwyer [at]
un.org
Date: Tue, Apr
16, 2013 at
6:17 PM
To:
matthew.lee [at]
innercitypress.com
Dear Matthew,
On your
question about
a DPKO
"statement",
as it was
referred to in
the Reuters
story this
afternoon. No
"statement"
was issued. A
reporter
called our
office and we
reiterated the
information
delivered at
Friday's noon
briefing."
So
how can
Reuters
portray this
as a UN
“statement on
Tuesday”? This
is a fraud.
Not only in the
(mis) use of
the word
statement, but
in presenting
three day old
news as new.
Do they do
this in
finance too?
And
if they do it
on this, just
to try to beat
out a media
Nichols and UN
bureau chief Louis
Charbonneau have
tried to get
thrown out of
the UN
for at least a
year now,
including by
Charbonneau
threatening
that if
Inner City
Press is not
thrown out, he
will leave,
what is
Reuters
doing on other
stories?
Since June 2012 the
question has
been put to
Reuters big wigs
Steve Adler,
Greg McCune
and even the
social media
editor. But
nothing.Watch
this site.
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