UN
Censors
Go Trolling
Even on
Thanksgiving,
Pam Falk
Sycophant to
Power
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 29 --
Amid the UN's
humanitarian
work there is
ugliness:
bringing cholera
to Haiti then
refusing to be
accountable,
turning a
blind eye
during the
slaughter of
40,000 in Sri Lanka,
allowing
impunity for mass
rape in the
Democratic
Republic of
the
Congo and,
so far, by its
own
peacekeepers
in Mali.
Inside
the UN's own
headquarters,
even among
those
ostensibly
covering the
UN, there is
ugliness too.
For example: insiders
among the UN
Correspondents
Association's
executive
committee,
past,
present
and future,
have not
only tried
to get other
journalists
thrown out of
the UN --
in 2013
under the
leadership of
Pamela Falk of
CBS, they
began
anonymous
trolling
social media
campaigns,
UNacccountable.
And
on November
27, 2013, the
day before US
Thanksgiving,
they've been
at
it again.
It
began in late
2011, when
UNCA's
executive
committee or
whose who
control it
decided to demand
the deletion
from the
Internet of an
on-the-record
factual
article about
financial
background
relevant to
UNCA's
screening of a
Sri Lanka
government
film denying
war crimes,
they became
the UN's
Censorship
Alliance.
When
a 2013 UNCA
executive
committee
member filed a
stealth
complaint with
UN Security
leading with
how Inner City
Press posed a
question to UN
Under
Secretary
General for
Peacekeeping
Herve Ladsous,
who refused
Press
questions (video here, UK
coverage here),
the UN's
Censorship
Alliance
slipped lower,
under 2013
president
Pamela Falk of
CBS.
As
reported by
Media Bistro,
two UNCA board
members began
false Inner
City Press
twitter
accounts.
Exposed,
neither of
these two are
listed
as running --
usually there
is no
competition --
for
re-election in
2014. But one
is simply to
be replaced by
another Reuters
scribe, endorsed
by Falk; the
other, the
earliest
Ladsous fan,
has become an
endorser too.
On
November 27,
2013, the UNCA
trolls were at
it again,
anonymously,
online. Those
who partner
with UNCA and
prop it up,
informed, have
not stopped
it, nor has
UNCA's
"leadership."
When what
began as a
press
organization
descends into
trying to censor
or get other
journalists
thrown out, it
calls out for
scrutiny and
coverage. This
Press coverage
is on the
record, just
as Inner City
Press also covers
the UN Staff Union,
its budget
committees,
"Ethics"
Office and
other arcania.
Unlike the
UNCA counterfeiters
and trolls, it
is on the
record, by
name, for
attribution.
Inner City
Press for now
makes a
single, sample
observation,
publicly: the
2013
and one-party
system style
presumptive
2014 UNCA
chief Pamela
Falk,
who demands
first
questions at
the UN on
topics she
does not write
or
broadcast on,
cravenly
directed
alongside her
UNCA's troll
campaign a
red white and
blue American
photo to US
Ambassador
Power. That is
called: being
a sycophant to
P/power.
And
there are
others, trying
to get on the
inside with
this group of
trolls and
censors? Watch
this site.
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