As UN of Guterres
Admits Staff in Terror Attack of
Oct 7 OIOS to Cover Up Spox
Phillips Lies
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Jan 26 – For weeks Inner City
Press has asked the UN and its
media people, including
Stephane Dujarric and News and
Media chief Ian Phillips,
about evidence that UNRWA
workers took part in the
October 7 attacks. No answers
at all - censorship.
Now after SG
Antonio Guterres' belated and
begrudging acknowledgment, the
UN has assigned its OIOS to
cover up, as it has done
before, see here.
Does the UN
corrupt everyone that goes to
work for it?
Given the
inflated salaries it pays its
officials, the UN can collect
and try to buttress its
credibility with for example
name-brand journalists. But
what freedoms do they give up,
and how low do they
go?
In 2023 the UN
hired Ian Phillips, once the
Associated Press' head of (get
this) journalist safety. His
LinkedIn profile,
after moving to the UN, states
that his "role includes
advisory and policy work, with
particular focus on press
freedom."
So Inner City
Press, having been roughed up
by UN Security and then banned
from entering or getting even
its written questions asked,
last week wrote to Ian
Phillips at the UN - and
through his LinkedIn profile:
Hello Mr.
Phillips. I am asking you to
look into this and ensure that
the UN Media and Accreditation
Unit fairly process, and rule
on, my pending application
for (re)
accreditation. Two
separate law firms have
written the UN pro bono on my
behalf, without answer."
No
answer at all. Is the money
too good? Does journalist
safety and free press only
count when it is not the UN
doing the roughing up, and the
censoring?
In the past few
days, we've sent our daily
press questions to Mr.
Phillips as well, since he's
the head of the UN's "News and
Media Division." Questions
about Gaza and the Secretary
General's finances. And no
answers at all.
So
again: Does the UN
corrupt everyone that goes to
work for it? We will continue
to report on this.
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