| UN Fleming Launches Verified
As Propaganda While Banning Press Which
Criticizes UN
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 23 – The United Nations on
May 18 bragged about getting
media organizations, many of
them Chinese government
entities, to sign up to issue
pro-UN propaganda. Then,
relatedly, the UN launched a
program to promote their
propaganda over others, with
the Orwellian name "Verified."
The face
of Verified is Melissa
Fleming, who has kept critical
Inner City Press banned from
the UN and now its Chinese
Zoom rooms for 690 days,
without any appeals right or
explanation. Likewise, while
justifying this move to
spending the global public's
money to censor criticism of
the UN and of China, Fleming
and Guterres have taken the UN
entirely elitist, telling
people not to believe smaller
more independent media.
But
Fleming's launch, telling the
world to believe the UN, was
followed by a UN noon briefing
in which the audio, video and
even the UN's scripted
questions broken down. Video here.
Verified, indeed. We'll have
more on this.
The former they
call the "SDG Media Compact,
an alliance of news and
entertainment companies
convened by the United
Nations."
Why would any non-state media
sign up in advance to praise
an organization it is supposed
to be reporting on?
Can any of these
100 media be counted on to
report on the UN spreading
COVID19 in South Sudan, as it
introduced cholera to Haiti?
Or to report on Sec-Gen
Antonio Guterres' personal
financial links to convicted
UN briber CEFC China Energy,
or sell out of the Uighurs,
Hong Kong and Taiwan?
The answer is no. This is a
shameful partnership, which
any serious media should walk
away from or at least, for
now, publicly clarify in terms
of how it impacts the media's
coverage of the UN's under
performance in Cameroon, Yemen
and elsewere. From today's
shameful press release by
Melissa Fleming, who has
meanwhile banned independent
Inner City Press from the UN
for 690 days:
“Media play a
crucial role in countering
misinformation and galvanizing
action for a sustainable
recovery from the COVID-19
crisis based on science,
solidarity and our common
roadmap, the Sustainable
Development Goals,” said
Melissa Fleming, UN
Under-Secretary-General for
Global Communications. “We are
proud to have one hundred SDG
Media Compact members from
across the globe [including]
Shanghai Media Group. “It is
our sincere wish to work
closely with global media
organizations to jointly build
a community of shared future
for mankind," said Chairwoman
Jianjun Wang.
"In a
digital world full of
misinformation and fake news,
credibility is vital, and that
is what we have greatly gained
through our partnership with
the SDG Media Compact and the
rich editorial content
shared," said Maikem Emmanuela
Manzie on behalf of Ndefcam
radio in Cameroon. “The free
flow of information on current
issues, especially on
COVID-19, has helped in
building our stories on how
the community can better fight
this new virus Asahi Shimbun
explained why antagonizing the
World Health Organization
won’t bring the world closer
to containing the virus.
On
the socio-economic front,
Euronews, in an interview with
the UN Secretary-General,
called attention to the need
for global solidarity for the
world to emerge stronger from
the crisis. CGTN published a
number of pieces calling for
debt relief for the poorest
nations." And CCTV's James
Chau is a WHO "Goodwill
Ambassador."
Inner City Press is sure that
the UN's Cameroon partner will
hold Paul Biay accountable -
not. Shameful. Watch this
site.
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