UNITED
NATIONS, May 5
-- UN media
accreditation
official
Stephane
Dujarric
on June 21,
2012 thanked
Voice of
America
for having
asked him to
"review" the
accreditation
of Inner City
Press. This
document
was obtained
from VOA
under the US
Freedom of
Information
Act.
Once
the
request,
which VOA
said was
supported by
Reuters
and Agence
France
Presse, Bloomberg
News
and UN
Correspondents
Association
Executive
Committee
members, was
exposed
Dujarric
reverted to
telling Inner
City Press
how to cover
Ban Ki-moon
and his
Peacekeeping
chief, Herve
Ladsous
(video).
Now,
past midnight
on May 4-5,
2013 one
of the
anonymous
social media
accounts
associated
with UNCA
has directed
itself at
Dujarric
asking why
Inner
City Press is
accredited to
cover the UN.
This is
an account
which
began with a
photograph
taken behind
the UN
Security
Council
stakeout. It
has launched
defenses of,
yes, Reuters,
Voice of
America
and CBS News,
base of
UNCA
President
Pamela Falk
(video).
So
what will
Dujarric do?
Last month he
told Inner
City Press to
contact
him "urgently"
about a single
tweet
mentioning
Ladsous, his
new Police
Adviser, and
World War II
-- through
which France
"won"
its Security
Council veto,
and thus the
power to give
UN
Peacekeeping
to Ladsous,
the fourth
Frenchman in a
row in the
position.
Dujarric
said
the tweet
"crossed all
bounds," and
said he was
just
"giving Inner
City Press a
chance."
But
what of social
media messages
openly
directed to
Dujarric
asking him
to throw Inner
City Press
out, after
having falsely
alleged Inner
City Press is
funded by
terrorists,
which gave
rise to death
threats?
What
do Dujarric
and Ban
Ki-moon's UN
do about this?
There
are reasons,
even beyond
his defense to
the Free
UN Coalition
for Access
and the NYCLU
of a
continuing
lack of due
process rules
for
journalists at
the UN,
that these
UNCA trolls
think they'll
get a
sympathetic
ear and action
from Dujarric.
Watch this
site.
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