UN's
Censorship
Alliance Lists
10
Items in 1
Hour, Fake
Social Media
on List
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 15 –
After a year
in which the
UN
Correspondents
Association
spent most of
its meetings
trying to get
the
investigative
Press thrown
out, first of
the UNCA
Executive
Committee
to which it
was elected
then from
the UN as a
whole,
Friday they
will
belatedly hold
an annual
general
meeting.
It
is already
being held
later than is
required by
the UNCA
constitution,
just as the
sham elections
with only one
candidate for
each officer
post was held
after the
required time.
But
the agenda for
Friday's
General
Meeting has
ten items, all
to be
handled in an
hour or less.
A Security
Council
meeting is now
scheduled 45
minutes into
UNCA's kabuki
theater.
Perhaps the
UNCA
“leaders” no
longer cover
the Security
Council, at
least not
in-person.
The
funniest or
most cynical
item on the
agenda is the
“Committee to
Expand Social
Media.”
This comes
after the UNCA
“leaders” have
set up at
least two
anonymous
social media
accounts
to try to
undermine the
new Free
UN Coalition
for Access
as well as
co-founder
Inner City
Press.
Will they make
some admission
on Friday? Or
at least drop
the anonymity?
Let's name
some names,
with documents
obtained under
the US Freedom
of Information
Act.
It was Voice
of America,
which said it
had the
support of Reuters'
Louis
Charbonneau
and AFP's
Tim
Witcher,
which made the
June 20, 2012
request to UN official
Stephane
Dujarric
to "review the
accreditation"
of Inner City
Press.
The UN has yet
to state what
it's rules for
due process
for
journalists on
such
complaints.
Friday's
meeting,
it seems, is
closed to
other
journalists,
even though
UNCA
has for years
felt
comfortable
impacting on
journalists
who have
chosen to not
join UNCA.
This is now
being opposed
by FUNCA.
The
response has
been to tear
down FUNCA
flyers -- all
of them, on
February 15.
The head of
DPI has
genially let
FUNCA know to
expect
some good
news. We are
always open.
“Separate but
equal”
didn't work,
however, under
Jim Crow in
the American
South, and we
don't think it
will work
in the UN.
Watch this
site.
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