UN
Gives Raid
Photos to
UNCA, Its
Mundo111
Resurfaces
Defending
VOA
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
March 22 --
How the UN and
its Censorship
Alliance work
is
on
display
today.
This round
started four
days ago, when
the UN
entered Inner
City Press'
office and,
without notice
or consent,
searched
papers and
took
photograph.
The
UN also
allowed Pamela
Falk of CBS,
the president
of the UN
Correspondents
Association
(as noted
increasingly
known as the
UN's
Censorship
Alliance), to
take
photographs.
Today,
three
photographs of
the office
assigned to
Inner City
Press but
rarely used,
as UNCA
“leaders” have
posted
insulting
flyers and
graffiti on
the door,
appeared in an
article in
BuzzFeed.
As
if primed for
(anonymous)
action, UNCA
“leaders”
quickly
commented on
the BuzzFeed
story.
For example,
one of the
nom-de-web
commenters is
“Mundo111,”
in this case
snarking that
“it's
hardly
surprising
that VOA and
others don't
want the guy
around. [He]
keeps talking
about his
reporting from
NY on the Sri
Lanka war
against the
Tamil Tigers.”
Actually,
it
was for that Sri
Lanka
reporting that
UNCA tried to
throw out
Inner City
Press. But
more to the
point, here is
what a Freedom
of Information
Act
response from
Voice of
America says:
“The
Mundo111
reference is
about a piece
in the
Guardian UK
picked up from
Heritage's
[REDACTED]
about the
situation.
Someone from
UNCA, I
honestly don't
know who,
posted our
letter to
members on the
Guardian
comment
section.”
So
Margaret
Besheer of
VOA, then an
UNCA Executive
Committee
member,
admitted that
Mundo111 was
“someone from
UNCA.” And now
Mundo111
is
again jumping
in, as a first
comment to
BuzzFeed,
defending
Voice
of America now
“want[ing
Inner City
Press]
around.”
We
could say more
-- Inner City
Press has
broken more
stories at the
UN
so far this
year
then
stenographer
Margaret
Besheer has in
her whole
time at the UN
-- but the
point is:
these
anonymous
commenters
are,
admitted and
as exposed by
FOIA, “someone
from UNCA.”
This is the
UN's
Censorship
Alliance.
Watch this
site.
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