On
UN Hedge Fund Heavy Carnegie
Council Bemoans Negative
Coverage of Guterres While
Ignoring UN Censorship
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
May 30 – The United Nations
under Antonio Guterres
provides fewer
and fewer answers, restricts
the critical Press and on May
30 canceled
a rare Guterres press
encounter while promoting one
a full four weeks in the
future. On the same day, a
piece by the law firm and
hedge fund heavy Carnegie
Council bemoaned negative
coverage of the UN while
uncritically quoting officials
who are involved in blocking
and restricting the Press that
actually covers the UN.
The
piece runs
a quote that the UN “creates
material that can be used,
shared, and amplified," said
Maher Nasser, the UN director
of outreach. "This happens in
different ways and is done by
different stakeholders, like
the media industry,
celebrities, the NGO sector,
the academia, and of course,
on social media platforms." It
neglects to mention that
Nasser blocks
Inner City Press on the social
media platform Twitter, and
through his spurious complaint
is responsible, along with UN
Spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
for banning
Inner City Press' use of the
social media platform
Periscope on the UN's 38th
floor.
The
piece says “when António
Guterres became the ninth UN
Secretary-General in January
2017, the organization gained
a CEO better suited to deal
with the challenging questions
of reporters—although
correspondents have complained
that he does not appear nearly
often enough in front of the
press corps at UN
headquarters.” But the link
for the “complaint” is,
tellingly, to an article about
Ban Ki-moon.
Guterres' “Global
Communicator” Alison Smale,
who has refused for nine
months to respond to a 5000
signature petition
from the Free UN Coalition for
Access about her restrictions
on Inner City Press and the
lack of any content neutral
media access rules, is
tellingly not even mentioned.
Even those who work for her
rarely see her.
The piece
equated the pro-Guterres UNCA
with the UN press corps; the
UNCA board recently accepted
pan-seared corvina
and wine from Guterres without
asking him about press
restrictions much less
corruption or sexual
harassment in the UN.
Meanwhile,
for daring to cover an event
of UNCA held in the UN Press
Briefing Room, to cover if
they discussed the indictment
for UN bribery of Ng Lap Seng
whose funds UNCA
accepted while providing a
venue for Ng's photos with the
UN Secretary General, Inner
City Press was evicted
and remains
restricted to minders to this
day.
The
trustees and advisers of the
Carnegie Council include:
Stephen D.
Hibbard, Chairman, Carnegie
Council; Financial
Institutions Litigation
Partner, Jones Day
Anthony L.
Faillace, Vice-Chairman,
Carnegie Council; Owner, Drake
Management
Jonathan E.
Colby, Treasurer, Carnegie
Council; Managing Director,
Carlyle Group
Robert G. Shaw,
Secretary of the Corporation,
Carnegie Council; Sea Trade
Holdings Inc.
Ian Bremmer,
Eurasia Group
Elisabeth Sifton,
Former Senior Vice President,
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Brett Buchness,
Vice President & Portfolio
Manager, BlackRock
Richard A. Edlin,
Shareholder, Greenberg
Traurig, LLP.
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