UNITED
NATIONS, April
27 -- It's
easy to make
fun of the
bloated White
House
Correspondents
Dinner. Amid
the glitz was
a telling
conflict of
interest.
Reuters, or
rather its
corporate
parent Thomson
Reuters,
bragged that
it had at its
table the
incoming Bank
of English
government
Mark Carney.
Some
might say it
would be worse
to have an
actual banker.
But if the
subprime
financial
meltdown has
taught
anything, it's
that a failure
to hold the
regulators to
account has
the most
potential to
harm the
public.
So
should an
ostensibly
journalistic
organization
be hobnobbing
with
regulators it
purports to
cover?
We
say
“ostensibly
journalist”
not only
because
Reuters is
really
about servicing
high frequency
stock traders
-- and not as
well as
Bloomberg, it
is clear
-- but also
because, for
example at the
UN,
Reuters has no
respect for
freedom of the
press at all.
Its
bureau chief
has repeatedly
tried to
get Inner City
Press thrown
out
of the UN,
even telling
the UN if they
didn't throw
Inner City
Press
out, he would
leave. And
that would
hurt, he
services the
UN and
powerful
Western
countries so
well.
Reuters
channels
the Western
view on Iran
and Syria;
takes
hand-outs from
Herve Ladsous,
the fourth
Frenchman in a
row to head UN
peacekeeping,
and bristles
when told it
defames for
example Kenya.
Not
this but the
Reuters'
bureau chief's
activities
were brought
to the
attention of
Reuters editor
in chief
Stephen J.
Adler, who
did...
nothing.
Saturday
Adler
was at the
so-called Nerd
Prom, mugging
it up for the
camera.
Conan O'Brien
joked about
Reuters, and
Steve probably
found it
funny.
But there's
nothing funny
about
censorship, or
trolling.
Adler
started a
Twitter
account, but
hasn't tweeted
since 2011.
His UN
reporter,
however,
became a troll
- and again,
nothing was
done. Nerd
Prom indeed.
Watch this
site.
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