Reuters-Linked
Trolls
Stoke Up Syria
& Rwanda
Haters, UN
Censorship
Alliance
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 12 --
The decline of
Reuters' UN
Bureau, from
anonymous
social media
trolling to mere
re-typing of
spoon-fed
answers to
other media's
questions
and outright
spying for the
UN,
demonstrated
as to Reuters
bureau chief
Louis
Charbonneau,
is a sad
and sordid
tale. Here is
a recent
chapter.
Back
on April
10, 2013,
Inner City
Press showed
Reuters big
wigs
including
Stephen J.
Adler, his
"Ethics
Officer" Greg
McCune, Editor
in
Chief, Paul
Ingrassia,
Deputy Editor
in Chief, and
Walden Siew,
Top
News Editor,
that their
UN reporter
Michelle
Nichols was
associated
with anonymous
social media
accounts
that sought to
get Inner City
Press targeted
by extremists
in Syria and
elsewhere.
This
followed a
proceeding of
the UN
Correspondents
Association in
2012,
led by
Charbonneau as
he leaked
internal
anti-Press
UNCA documents
to
UN
accreditation
official
Stephane
Dujarric, that
resulted in
Inner
City Press
getting death
threats from supporters
of Sri Lanka's
Rajapaksa
government,
click here an
outside
summary of
that.
Reuters
did
nothing; the
Reuters-associated
account then
ramped up the
anonymous
trolling,
including
quoting from
Dujarric and
defending UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous, who
refuses to
answer
Inner City
Press'
questions
after being
asked about his
role as
France's
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
at the UN
during the
Rwanda
genocide,
arguing for
the escape of
genocidaires
into Eastern
Congo.
Now,
on August 11,
this same
anonymous
social media
account was at
it
again, trying
to stoke up
threats from
both the
Rwanda issue
and,
again, Syria.
Can a major
media company
act this way?
How low with
UNCA, now
under Pamela
Falk of CBS
and
Charbonneau of
Reuters behind
her, spying
for the UN,
go?
Charbonneau
hands to Ban
Ki-moon: document,
audio,
story
What
of Dujarric,
who accepted
without
complaint
through his
personal
e-mail address
the internal
UNCA
document from
Charbonneau,
headed "you
didn't get
this from me,"
and has
despite this
conflict of
interest
issued his own
February 2013
threat letter
to Inner City
Press, and
supervised
one in June
about the mere
hanging of a
sign of
the Free
UN
Coalition for
Access on
the door
of Inner City
Press' shared
office?
DPI,
where Dujarric
works, was
long ago made
aware of these
UNCA
"leaders'"
anonymous
social media
trolling. It
continues,
and DPI has...
well, we'll
have more on
this. Watch
this site.