UNITED NATIONS
GATE, January 23 – When Amazon
scheduled a screeing of its Amazon
Studios' movie "Beautiful Boy" with
Steve Carrel on January 23, Inner City
Press was invited and was told to come
pick up its ticket in a United Nations
Development Program building before
six pm. It arrived and a handler in a
black suit confirmed Inner City Press
was on the list - but said that the
actual ticket couldn't be found.
Another Amazon production rep same and
said "UN Security" was behind the
disappearance of the ticket.
Inner City Press asked the basis,
noting that Amazon and Jeff Bezos
either shouldn't be involved in
censorship or should at least explain
it. The Amazon rep went out on the
sidewalk to make a call; the rep in
the black suit whispered to others
that Inner City Press had started
recording, which it had,
openly.
Other
tickets were given out, including to
people not on the list, to one
Elizabeth Dujarric, to another UN
correspondent. Finally the Amazon rep
came in front the sidewalk and said
she had nothing to add, no
explanation.
A guard came over and grabbed Inner
City Press' phone, stopping it from
filming, turning it dark. Who do you
work for, I asked. The guard refused
to answer. Video here.
Another blue shirted UN Department of
Safety and Security officer refused to
answer if those guarding UNDP work for
the UN, or some outside firm. The
handlers came over, once the camera
had been stopped by the guard, to
insist they were not from Amazon but
Amazon's production company. Is that
better?
The guards filmed Inner City Press out
on the sidewalk as it ask some of
those leaving the UNDP building what
they thought of UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres and his censorship. His
spokes- / hatchetman Farhan
Haq opening promoted this Amazon
Prime for profit film, here.
We'll have more on this.
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