UN GATE, Sept 18
– While the United Nations
speaks about press freedom and
the upcoming UN General
Assembly week under new
President Zolkan Bozkir of
Turkey, UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres has banned
Inner City Press amid its
questions about his finances
and failures on Cameroon and
in combatting or even just
disclosing UN sexual
abuse.
On
September 17, Guterres'
spokesman Staphane Dujarric
was asked about it, and Inner
City Press' formal application
for access.
Video here.
Transcript below.
Dujarric said "Mr. Lee's
status remains unchanged" -
banned 808 days and counting.
On September 18 he and PGA
spokesman Brenden Varma
refused written questions. The
in-house correspondents,
including some without
computers and many state media
and retires, would get a
private briefing at 2 pm.
And here
is video, in which
Guterres' staffer Volker Turk,
a man who ignored Cameroon and
then took over for a sexual
harasser, quotes another
Antonio Gramsci, and takes
questions from CBS about
problems with Trump, and from
another about Biden. Video here. & II
There's more.
It emerges
that the UNGA speeches will
not only be on tape - they
will be four days old. US
President Trump is not coming.
Much to the UN Correspondents
Association's displeasure,
there will be no free lunch.
This UNCA did not fight to get
electronic access for
journalists around the world,
only the 100 who pay them
money. To this has the UN
sunk. Inner City Press will be
covering UNGA, while demanding
access.
From the
September 17 transcript: Q:
you were talking about press
freedoms, a different part of
the press. What's the latest
with Inner City Press? They've
apparently asked
to be credentialed, and that's
been ignored. They've played
an active part in uncovering
UN corruption over the years.
Where does... where do they
stand regarding UN
credentialing?
UN Spokesman
Dujarric: Mr. Lee's
status remains unchanged.
Okay...
Question:
And does that mean that that's
going to stay unchanged,
meaning he's banned for the
next... for this General
Assembly?
Spokesman
Dujarric: Well, I mean,
there's no... we're not
issuing any new credentials
for this General Assembly,
because there's really
nothing... there are no
physical... barely any
physical events here. So,
there's no... no temporary
credentials are being given,
anyway.
All right. Thank you very
much. I will leave you in the
capable hands of Mr. [Brenden]
Varma....
Brenden Varma,
for PGA Bozkir, has refused to
answer Inner City Press'
questions about his
backsliding on the one reform
from the UN corruption scandal
Inner City Press reported on,
often exclusively, about PGAs
Ashe and Kutesa; Bozkir has an
empty
"Ethics" page.
Varma then
blocked Inner City Press on
Twitter. This is today's UN -
we'll have more on this issue.
Inner City Press should be
given the codes to access
and ask questions at briefings
immediately, like the state
media and retirees Guterres
and Melissa Fleming prefer and
favor.
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