UNITED
NATIONS, April
5 -- Voice of
America,
controlled by
the US State
Department,
claims to be a
serious media
outlet. Not
original --
they
have been
called
scoopless due
to their lack
of exclusives
-- but
doggedly
derivative.
Essentially
they
take other
media's
content, match
two to get
confirmation,
then
file their own
story.
But
they can be
not only
arrogant,
trying to get
media which
actually
investigates
original
stories thrown
out of the UN
for example,
but
also
clown-like.
The
full
time UN
correspondent
saw fit to
lobby Steve
Redisch of VOA
to
try to throw
Inner City
Press out of
the UN. Even
now off the UN
Correspondents
Association
(a/k/a UN's
Censorship
Alliance)
Executive
Committee, she
remains
involved in
such
campaigns.
On
April 4
another VOA
reporter
showed up, and
how, at the UN
Security
Council
stakeout.
Doing a loud
and repetitive
stand-up in
the
hallway, she
drowned out
and even
shushed a long
time UN
Permanent
Representative.
Just before
this she had conferred
with VOA's
full time UN
correspondent.
Call it the
VOA training
program.
Then
when Rwanda's
Permanent
Representative
Eugene Richard
Gasana,
April's
Security
Council
president,
came out to
the stakeout,
she stood in
the back
shouting out
her question.
Video
here, from
Minute 1:25.
She
was not on the
UN microphone;
as part of the
Alliance, the
UN's Media
Accreditation
and Liaison
Unit helped
move the boom
microphone to
the
back. But what
was VOA's
question? Was
it about the
morning's
Council
topic, and
subject of
Gasana's
stakeout,
Yemen?
No.
The question
was about Iran
talks, not at
the UN but in
Almaty,
Khazakstan.
Gasana at
first couldn't
hear her
question, then
shook
his head: off
topic.
Didn't
he know, this
was a question
from the US
State
Department?
Sometimes
the State
Department's
three, count
'em three,
outlets at the
UN,
each with its
own office,
tag team and
pretend to be
unaffiliated.
The subject of
the questions
says, darn,
this is a
trend.
The
VOA circus on
April 4 led
some to
wonder: is
Voice of
America
showing
up now, even
if off topic,
in order to
defend getting
three separate
offices,
including a
big spread for
Voice of
America's main
correspondent?
But is this
the way? Watch
this site.
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