UNITED
NATIONS, June
4 -- As the UK
as president
adopted its UN
Security
Council
program of
work on
Tuesday
morning, outside
for the second
day in a row
-- the second
day in years
-- there was
no media
worktable.
Inner
City Press has
been shown a
rule that
would ban
media
workspace, and
even
discourage
journalists'
presence when
the Council is
not in formal
session.
But
it's worse. As
Inner City
Press and the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access
have been
advocating for
restoration of
the media
access that
existed
before, anonymous
social media
accounts
associated
with the old
UN
Correspondents
Association
have not only
been arguing
AGAINST media
workspace, but
presenting
their method
of work as the
only one.
This
method seems
to involve
rarely coming
to the
Security
Council
stakeout, and
only speaking
to Western P-3
ambassadors or
more
frequently
their
spokespeople.
One
small message,
sent mid
Tuesday
morning, was
to chide Inner
City Press
that "Real
journalists
report and
investigate
the news -
they don't
create it!"
That is, real
journalists
are faceless
pass-throughs
for those in
power.
That
came from an
account which
previously
sent a cell
phone
photograph
from the
storage room
behind the
temporary
Security
Council
location. It
is from a
journalist at
the UN, and
one closely
involved with
UNCA. We will
have more on
this in the
days to come.
Where
was the
president of
UNCA, Pamela
Falk of CBS,
during all
this? Not at
the stakeout.
(Several of
her board
members who
have tried
to get smaller
more
investigative
press thrown
out of the UN
were: Louis
Charbonneau
of Reuters,
Tim
Witcher of
AFP,
there's more).
Nor
obviously was
Falk doing
anything to
rein in her
UNCA trolls,
of which she
has been
informed since
at latest
February 22.
Rather she was
getting ready
to try to
claim the
first question
about the
Democratic
Republic of
Congo at the
noon briefing,
to UN official
Kyung-wha
Kang.
To
what end? Does
she ever
report on this
on CBS? Or is
it simply a
make-up
question to
promote UNCA
or herself?
These might
seem like
tough
questions, but
at least they
are on the
record. It is
UNCA and certain
lazy,
faceless and
resentful big
media
reporters on
its and its
affiliate's
boards who for
months has
been hiding
behind
anonymous
accounts. They
have hit a new
low. Watch
this site.
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