UNITED
NATIONS UN,
March 25 -- At
first the big
media gang
which runs the
UN
Correspondents
Association
specialized in
secret
complaints,
but at
least in their
own names.
In
2013 with
Pamela Falk of
CBS in charge
of UNCA, now
full anonymity
is
used.
Anonymous
flyers, fake
social media
accounts,
and most
recently
photos taken
during the
UN's March 18
raid of Inner
City Press passed
to
BuzzFeed by an
anonymous,
UNCA-defending
“Concerned UN
Reporter.”
It's a new
low.
How
can
journalists
press
diplomats and
UN officials
to speak on
the
record if they
won't?
Back
in 2012, Louis
Charbonneau of
Reuters wrote
to the UN's
Stephane
Dujarric
to claim that
an entirely
verbal
interchange
with Inner
City
Press was the
worst thing
he'd been
though in 20
years of
journalism.
Some twenty
years, then.
Voice
of
America's
Steve Redisch,
lobbied by
VOA's UN
correspondent
Margaret
Besheer, wrote
to Dujarric on
June 20, 2012
to ask that
Inner City
Press'
accreditation
be “reviewed.”
Neither
thought
that Inner
City Press
would ever
learn of much
less see and
publish the
complaints,
since the UN
has no due
process rules
for
journalists.
But again, at
least these
complaints
were not
anonymous.
In
2013 since
UNCA has been
taken over by
Pamela Falk of
CBS News, UNCA
has gone ever
lower. First
there were
flyers
counterfeiting
those of
the new Free
UN Coalition
for Access,
and defacing
of FUNCA
flyers
with insults.
Then
UNCA “leaders”
started at
least four
anonymous
social media
accounts to
try to
undermine
Inner City
Press and
FUNCA, mocking
an
alleged victim
of sexual
harassment
then telling a
country's
mission
to the UN that
Inner City
Press wanted a
small donation
to
investigate
the
allegations.
Now
we have the
worst: the UN
raiding Inner
City Press'
office on
March
18 without
notice or
consent,
searching
papers and
taking
photographs
-- and giving
them to UNCA
“leaders.”
Why
wouldn't these
UNCA “leaders”
complaint
publicly, in
their own
names, if they
were so
concerned? But
they sent
the photos
from the
UN to BuzzFeed
under a false
name,
“Concerned UN
Reporter,” and
gave quotes on
that basis to.
This
is called
cowardice.
It
is also how
reporting at
and around the
UN has been
undermined.
Again: how can
journalists
press
diplomats and
UN officials
to speak
on the record
if they won't?
In
the newest of
new lows, Falk
on March 23
send Inner
City Press a
legal threat
about even
asking the
question
of how the
photos of the
UN's raid got
to BuzzFeed.
More on that
soon. Watch
this site.
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