UNITED
NATIONS, March
18 -- When the
UN raided
Inner City
Press' office
on
Monday (video
here),
taking
photographs
was Pamela
Falk of CBS.
How and why
did
she get there?
And how is
this
consistent
with CBS'
policies?
Falk
agreed to
become, with
no opponent,
the present of
the UN
Correspondents
Association,
either without
knowing or
caring that
this
organization
spend most of
its meetings
in 2012 trying
to get
Inner City
Press thrown
out.
Documents
obtained under
the Freedom of
Information
Act from Voice
of America,
and published,
prove this.
But
since Falk
became
president of
UN, and Inner
City Press
left the
organization
to co-found
the Free UN
Coalition for
Access, UNCA
has
become even
worse.
Under
Falk's watch,
the
organization
has defaced
and torn down
FUNCA
flyers, and
started at
least four
anonymous
social media
accounts to
try to
undermine
Inner City
Press and / or
FUNCA, for
example by
falsely
telling a
country's
mission that
Inner City
Press was
collecting
money to
investigate
the mission.
(The
mission at
issue
immediately
brought this
to Inner City
Press'
attention;
Reuters
Louis
Charbonneau,
UNCA first
vice
president, was
blamed.)
At
a meeting the
UN Department
of Public
Information
invited Inner
City
Press to an on the
record
February 22,
they let Falk
scream
“mugger” at
Inner
City Press and
“you call
yourself a
journalist,”
and to say
that
lawyers --
Falk is a
lawyer,
perhaps talk
to herself --
tell her that
it “might
constitute a
crime” for
Inner City
Press to
submit
inquiries
about policies
to big media
companies like
Reuters, AFP
and
yes, CBS. Some
Falk
audio here,
and here,
and here,
and here.
After
that meeting,
on March 16,
Inner City
Press instead
of writing to
CBS
-- it might be
a crimes, Falk
said --
published an open letter
to
CBS, with
three
questions.
It named the
executives of
Up To The
Minute, the
show for which
Falk most
reporters,
albeit not for
at
least the past
week.
There's
been
no response --
other than the
UN's March 18
raid on Inner
City
Press' office,
with Falk
there taking
photographs.
So beyond the
three CBS
questions
already
publicly
asked, we must
add: is THIS
consistent
with CBS
policy?
Readers
have provided
us with what
might
be the right
names and CBS
departments. A
reader wrote:
“Falk
reports to the
CBS foreign
desk not Up to
the
Minute...Jeff
Fager is
the president
of CBS
News....Leslie
Moonves is
President and
co-CEO Sumner
Redstone is
Chairman and
co-CEO...the
Dept you want
CBS
standards and
practices...
also Falk's
official title
is CBS News
foreign
affairs
consultant.....she
is not a staff
correspondent...one
would
think that she
got approval
from somebody
in Fager's
office
before she ran
for UNCA
office, likely
Pamela Mason
Exec VP just
retired.”
So
did CBS
sign off on
Falk
overseeing
attempts to
get smaller,
more
investigative
media thrown
out of the UN,
and taking
photographs of
a
raid on their
office? We
will keep
asking. Watch
this site.
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