After
Ladsous
Spoonfeeds
& UN
Stonewalls,
UNCA Trolls in
Defense
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 10 --
The degree of
collusion, if
not to say
outright
corruption,
between UN
officials and
the
Correspondents
Association
which
ostensibly
cover them was
shown again
today.
After
a week in
which June 24
questions by
Inner City
Press for UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous about
the UN
Mine Action
Service's
Somalia boss
David Bax
sharing
genetic
information
from bombings
with
US authorities
were spoon-fed
to another
media, on
Saturday Inner
City Press published
the first in a
series on
Ladsous'
tenure at the
UN, here.
Inner
City Press
also on
Saturday
published an
initial
curtain-raiser
for the UN's
so-called
"Stress Test"
of its
problem-plagued
UN TV and
MAMS audio -
visual system,
embedding
complaints
that have been
raised, here.
Hours
later, a
social media
account
associated
with UNCA came
to the
defense of
Ladsous and
his lapdog --
anonymously,
of course.
Since
Inner City
Press quit
UNCA, which
through first
vice president
Louis
Charbonneau
of Reuters
demonstrably
spied for the
UN, handing
internal
anti-Press
UNCA documents
to the UN's
Stephane
Dujarric,
here, and
co-founded the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access
in December
2012, this has
been going on.
UNCA
"leaders'"
anonymous
social media
trolling began
in January
2013. Dujarric
and above him
within the UN
Department of
Public
Information
are aware of
it; it was
raised at a
February 2013
meeting
after which Dujarric
issued a
threat-letter
to Inner City
Press in
defense of his
source,
Charbonneau,
and UNCA's
2013 president
Pamela
Falk of CBS
News. (That
was a conflict
of interest.)
The
anonymous
trolling was
raised to
Reuters big
wigs including
Stephen
J. Adler, and
its former
social media
editor, now
with Circa.
Inner
City Press and
FUNCA have no
problems
responding to
critical
questions
online --
Inner City
Press did
so, regarding
the Democratic
Republic of
the Congo,
earlier on
Saturday
afternoon.
But
for big media
from Reuters
and CBS News
for to be
associated
with
ANONYMOUS
trolling, is
too much.
UNCA, in this
the UN
Cowardice
Association,
already got
DPI through
Dujarric to
try to threaten
Inner
City Press' accreditation
with
suspension or
withdrawal
for hanging
a
sign of the
Free UN
Coalition for
Access on the
door of its
shared
office,
while UNCA
now has five
signs.
UNCA
is given a big
room in the
UN, S-310,
which it locks
and uses for
faux
UN briefings,
with the "Chefs to the Chefs" and the
(Saudi-supported)
Syrian
opposition,
promoted only
to those which
pay
it money.
Inner City
Press'
question about
that at the
UN's noon
briefing have
still not been
answered. This
too, now, is a
conflict
of interest.
For months,
Inner City
Press and
FUNCA have
made all of
these
critiques on
the record, in
their names.
The UN
Cowardice
Association,
Ban Ki-moon's
exclusive
media partner,
continues to
take another,
lower road.
We'll have
more on and
about this.
Watch this
site.
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