UNITED
NATIONS, May
12, updated --
That this UN
can't solve
problems from
Syria to
Guinea Bissau
is reflected
closer to home
in the bungled
move-back of
the UN press
corps to the
Secretariat
building.
It
was delayed
for months,
then set to
occur on May
10. But when
the day
arrived, there
were still no
keys for the
offices being
moved back
to.
(There
were also
extensive
complaints
that the
largest and
most
private
offices were
granted to the
Executive
Committee
members of
the UN
Correspondents
Association, a
questionable
and questioned
grouping with
which the UN
exclusively
and secretly
negotiated
office
assignments.)
Journalists
were
told that a
new television
system called
EZTV would
replace the
old cable
system. But as
of May 10,
when Inner
City Press
tried the
referenced
eztv.un.org,
it did not
work. Nor did
the wi-fi in
the
third floor
press area.
Now
on the Sunday
before the
Monday "move
in," the UN
has
offered
apologies not
to the entire
press corps,
but only to
UNCA
Executive
Committee
insiders,
trying to use
them who have
been so
well served by
this secretive
planning to
molify others.
By
no means all
UN
correspondents
are
represented by
UNCA, despite
recent
false
statements by
UNCA president
Pamela Falk of
CBS,
broadcast
propaganda-like
on UNTV in the
UN's lobby, to
the contrary.
Falk's Rasputin-like
First Vice
President,
Louis
Charbonneau of
Reuters last
seen palling
around with UN
official
Stephane
Dujarric in
the UN lobby,
has been move
involved in
trying to get
the Press
thrown out of
the UN, as
recently as
March 8 of
this year,
than with any
protection of
press rights
at the UN.
The
Free UN
Coalition for
Access notes
that Reuters
grabbed for
itself a
private office
with five
spots (for two
people) while
another wire
service got
pushed with
two other
media. Maybe
that explains
Reuters'
increasingly
bogus UN
coverage.
So
where is
the on the
record mea
culpa to all
UN
correspondents?
Journalists
were told to
turn in their
keys to their
former
cubicles
and move on
May 13. But it
is not ready,
and there are
no keys to the
new spaces.
Investigative
journalists
have
commitments to
their
sources, and
will not leave
any records
unlocked.
(The
UN's
Department of
Public
Information
conducted a
non-consensual
raid on
March 18 on
the cubicle
Inner City
Press and the
Free UN
Coalition
for Access,
but both
fought back,
countered in
anonymous
leaking and
comments by
UNCA, become
the UN's
Censorship
Alliance.)
This
is UN
incompetence,
and perhaps
more. FUNCA
has written to
the chief of
the UN
Department of
Public
Information
requesting his
explanation.
Watch this
site.
Footnote:
amid
all this,
UNCA's
Executive
Committee has
continued and
increased
its campaign
of anonymous
social media
posts, of
which UN's DPI
is
intimately
aware. It has
gotten worse
and worse in
2013 and we
will
have more on,
and in
response, to
this.
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