UNITED
NATIONS, April
29 -- What is
UN Television
and why does
it show
outside
propaganda?
That
UNTV produces
its own
propaganda had
become a UN
fact of life.
It
produces shows
like "21st
Century,"
paying its
hosts how
much it will
not say, to
describe for
example its
good works in
Haiti
without
mentioning
that it
brought
cholera there,
killing over
7,000
people.
But
why does UNTV
repeatedly
show outside
shows, most
recently one
in
which UN
Correspondents
Association
president
Pamela Falk
gushes
about the
overthrown of
Gaddafi in
Libya and
claims that
UNCA is a
"trade
association of
all the
correspondents
of the United
Nations"?
That
claim is
patently
false, and
Pamela Falk -
or Pamela
False, her new
name -- knows
it. Back on
February 22,
in an on
the record
session in
front of the
official who
run UNTV,
Stephane
Dujarric, Falk
screamed at
Inner City
Press not
to
write about
her, and
not to dare
write to her
employer, CBS.
(She
would,
however, send
Inner City
Press a
censorship
threat from
her
CBSNews.com
e-mail
address.)
Now
she has
appeared
in an “interview”
with Global
Connections
Television, a
venue which
says its
interviews “UN
agencies and
their
ambassadors.”
Again, which
one is Falk?
After
Falk filmed
the segment on
April 3,
multiple
sources told
Inner City
Press she
demanded in
advance no
questions
about the Press
or
the Free
UN Coalition
for Access.
Inner City
Press wrote
about that
on April 4,
here.
Global
Connections
was asked,
back then, for
a review copy
of the show.
None
was provided.
Now it is
online, and is
being
broadcast
propaganda
style in the
UN's lobby.
So
on April 29,
Inner City
Press asked
the Department
of Public
Information's
chief -- who
was himself
interviewed by
Global
Connections
Television's
Bill Miller
earlier this
year, a
seemingly
conflict of
interest
causing segment
we
have yet to
review -- to
provide FUNCA
"a similar 15
minute
broadcast slot
on UNTV.
Please say
when (soon) or
explain why
now,
and the
applicable
content
neutral
rules."
The
response came
from, who
else,
Dujarric.
Instead of
explaining any
rules, or why
this
propaganda is
on UNTV, he
snarked "If
you
would like to
appear on Bill
Miller's show,
you should
contact him
directly."
That
is obviously
not the point.
Rather, why is
UNTV showing
(repeatedly)
an outside
show, which is
now promoting
UNCA, which
sought to get
media thrown
out of the UN?
FUNCA
noted to DPI's
chief with its
request for
rules, "the
broadcast
on UNTV also
again raised
the question
of DPI's lack
of
impartiality
or of allowing
space for more
than a one
party system."
As
noted:
Dujarric
is UNCA's main
supporter (and
even an
opponent of
anything more
than a one
party system)
and here are
just a few
reasons.
Dujarric
complained
when Inner
City Press
published
audio of UNCA
president
Pamela Falk
screaming in
an on
the record
meeting, audio
here and
here.
This
month,
Dujarric
threatened
Inner City
Press about a
single
tweet that
mentioned
World War Two
and UN
Peacekeeping
chief
Herve Ladsous
who owes his
JOB to
France's veto
power won in
WW2.
Dujarric
has
refused to
explain how
photos taken
during a
non-consensual
raid of Inner
City Press'
office on
March 18 were
leaked
to BuzzFeed on
March 21,
right after
that
publication
contacted
Ban's
spokesman with
questions
about the raid.
We will
continue to
push on all
this. Watch
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