UNITED
NATIONS, April
10 -- At
Reuters beyond
servicing high
frequency
stock
traders there
is a social
media editor.
There is a
big-picture
blogger. And
it now appears
there's also
designated
corporate
trolls.
Early
on April 10,
Inner City
Press wrote
to four top
editors at
Reuters
showing that
the tweeting
pattern,
complete with
ten day lull
between
March 29 and
April 9,
was identical
between a
troll account
that
calls for the
UN to throw
Inner City
Press out and
Reuters' UN
correspondent
Michelle
Nichols.
Inner
City Press has
checked with a
number of
experts in the
field -- not
Reuters', to
be sure -- and
they have said
it is
conclusive:
Nichols
is the troll.
But
the big wigs
at Reuters,
just as they
did in June
2012 when
shown
that their UN
bureau chief
Louis
Charbonneau
was driving a
kangaroo
court process
in the UN
Correspondents
Association
that led to
Inner
City Press
getting death
threats from Sri
Lankan
extremists,
have not
responded in
any way.
Too
busy with the
high frequency
traders? With
award dinners
or the
corporate
trolls?
Documents
obtained under
the Freedom of
Information
Act from Voice
of America
reflect
that Reuters
supported
VOA's June 20, 2012
request to
get
Inner City
Press thrown
out of the UN.
VOA's
Margaret
Besheer wrote
to her bosses
that Reuters
said it was
prepared to
sue Inner
City
Press.
For
what? For
speaking up
about death
threats from
Sri Lanka?
Back then,
Charbonneau
cynically said
that the
proceeding of
UNCA, of which
he
was and is
first vice
president,
would not stop
- Inner City
Press
should just
“call the
NYPD.”
Strangely
enough
it was
Reuters'
Nichols who
contacted and
complained to
Security, UN
Security, on
March 8 with a
demonstrably
false
complaint.
That too has
been raised to
the Reuters
big wigs. One
of
them is even
called the
ethics
officer: Greg
McCune.
Then
there's
Stephen J.
Adler, Editor
in Chief, Paul
Ingrassia,
Deputy
Editor in
Chief, and
Walden Siew,
Top News
Editor.
Apparently
when
you run a big
media or
financial
company like
Reuters, the
duty for
example to
supervise your
personnel at
the UN, so
they don't
file
anti-Press
complaints and
don't continue
to operate as
anonymous
corporate
trolls, goes
out the
window.
Lower down
in Reuters
last summer,
there was
surprise and
concern when
the NY Civil
Liberties
Union wrote to
the UN about
the VOA
request which
VOA said
Reuters
supported.
Here. But
that's lower
down in
Reuters. At
the top they
apparently pay
no attention.
They do not
supervise.
To
be clear: if
VOA's Besheer
was not lying
in her
e-mails to her
bosses
last year,
Reuters was
thinking of
suing
Inner City
Press. They
don't like
Inner City
Press, it
seems,
entirely based
on things it
reports on and
publishes.
But
what Inner
City Press
does is all on
the record, in
its name.
Nichols' troll
accounts are
not. Stealth
complaints by
Charbonneau to
the UN are
not.
Anonymous
transmittal of
photos of the
UN's March 18
non-consensual
raid on
Inner City
Press' office,
pseudonymous
comments on
the resulting
BuzzFeed
article: these
are not
on the
record.
Are
they
consistent
with Reuters'
policy? Having
waited 11
hours and
counting,
apparently
yes. Reuters
is an Empire
of Corporate
Trolls. Watch
this site.
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