UNITED
NATIONS, May
17 -- Friday
night from the
UN Reuters
ran a piece
about
Syria
purporting to
be news which
was little
more than a
single
sourced
advocacy piece
for the UN
Security
Council to
pass a
resolution
that hasn't
even been
introduced
yet.
The
piece ends
with a (blind)
quote that
it would be
"quite
difficult for
the Russians
to hold out
against it."
Really?
The
Reuters piece
says it is
based on what
"U.N.
diplomats
said"
-- that is,
plural. But
there is only
one diplomat
quote,
repeatedly.
Earlier
in
the week,
independent
journalists at
the UN were
summoned to a
press stakeout
by UN prime
minister David
Cameron,
who after a
short
statement said
he
"understood"
that Reuters
UN had a
question.
It is
all too
obvious; these
fakeouts at
the stakeout
are
being opposed
by the new Free UN Coalition for Access, along
with the
selective
spoon-feeding
of news, even
about the
kidnapping of
UN
peacekeepers,
by UN official
Herve Ladsous,
see Inner City
Press May
17
story and
video.
But
at that
fake-out at
the stakeout,
Reuters' UN
bureau chief
Louis
Charbonneau
tried to dress
up the
propaganda,
like Kim
Jong-un saying
he
"understood"
that KCNA had
a question, by
claiming he
was called on
as the UN
Correspondents
Association.
If
so, he sold
out the
decaying
group's dues
paying members
in order to
promote
himself,
Reuters, the
UK and their
identical
positions on
Syria, which
are not shared
by all members
of UNCA by any
means.
But
the
entity, now
known as the
UN's
Censorship
Alliance, is
increasingly
used by Gulf
and Western
big media to
advance their
own
interests.
Because
UNCA
has continued,
even on this
weekend, its
anti-Press
campaign via
anonymous
social media
accounts
associated
with Reuters,
we note that
this Reuters
Friday night
piece is
bylined
Michelle
Nichols, who
appears in a
UK Mission to
the UN video
speaking
ironically
about
World Press
Freedom Day.
We'll have
more on this.
For now, on
the record
media critique
is quite
different from
big media
using anonymous
accounts
against
smaller
competitors,
which Reuters
and others in
UNCA are
engaged in.
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