UNITED
NATIONS, May
24 -- UN
scribes from Reuters,
Bloomberg
News, Voice of
America, Agence
France Presse
and others on
the board of
the UN
Correspondents
Association
tried to get
Inner City
Press thrown
out
of the UN in
2012.
In 2013 they
have started
anonymous
social media
accounts to
falsely accuse
Inner City
Press of being
funded by
terrorists.
Inner
City Press
quit UNCA and
co-founded the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access.
FUNCA presses
the UN for
more
transparency,
for example this week
for
access to
report on the
Security
Council.
FUNCA has also
made the UN
aware that its
partners in
UNCA are
anonymous
trolls.
Most
recently on
May 23 Inner
City Press showed UN
official
Stephane
Dujarric that
FUNCA flyers
-- about
reduction in
press access
to the
Security
Council --
were defaced
by UNCA
"leaders,"
right
under a UN
Security
camera
installed over
the door to
the office of
Inner City
Press and
FUNCA. (Both
have told the
UN to take the
camera
down.)
Dujarric
on
May 23 wrote
that, "someone
reportedly
defaced the
fliers on
your door. We
will look into
the issue in
the morning."
But
nothing was
heard from
Dujarric by 4
pm on May 24.
Inner City
Press
and FUNCA
asked for an
update.
Dujarric
replied at
5:01 pm,
copying
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
three top
spokespeople,
"I have
nothing to add
to what I've
already told
you on record
on all the
issues you
raise in your
email."
So:
nothing was
done, or will
be done. By 8
pm, the UNCA
trolls --
Dujarric's
personal
friends --
began again,
celebrating
their
anonymity.
We
will begin by
naming the two
people most in
charge of
UNCA. The
president is
Pamela Falk of
CBS News, who
took
photographs as
Inner
City Press'
office was
raided by the
UN on March 18
then threatened
to
sue about
stories asking
why she took
photographs of
the raid.
Falk's
first vice
president and
Rasputin is
Louis
Charbonneau of
Reuters,
who filed
three stealth
complaints
(including at
least one to
Dujarric's
personal,
non-UN e-mail
account) to
try to get
Inner City
Press thrown
out of the UN
after he was
challenged on
stealing and
mislabeling
exclusives, for
which Reuters
offers extra
compensation.
This is UNCA,
the UN's
Censorship
Alliance. This
is the UNCA
Executive
Committee.
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