Request for UN to Dis-Accredit Inner City Press Filed by UNCA Officer VOA, Big Media & Lanka Roots
UNITED NATIONS, June 21 -- The UN has received, but not disclosed to Inner City Press, a formal request from one of the Big Media officers of the UN Correspondents Association to have its Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit "review Mr. Lee's status as an accredited U.N. correspondent."
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, June 21 -- The UN has received, but not disclosed to Inner City Press, a formal request from one of the Big Media officers of the UN Correspondents Association to have its Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit "review Mr. Lee's status as an accredited U.N. correspondent."
This confirms the Press exclusion goals of the "Board of Examination" process initiated by Reuters' Louis Charbonneau, Agence France Presse' Timothy Witcher, Bloomberg's Flavia Krause-Jackson of Bloomberg, Al-Arabia's Talal Al-Haj and Margaret Besheer of Voice of America, which formally filed the complaint.
Ironically, in terms of freedom of speech and of the press, VOA Executive Editor Steve Redisch on the very day that The Guardian (UK) mocked the UNCA process as one based on big media attempt to crush and exclude a smaller competitor which repeatedly scoops them, says Inner City Press "lacks proper judgment."
The day before, Redisch and VOA were notified of other coverage of the free press controversy. Perhaps VOA viewssome American media as "harassing." Or did Redisch only go forward with the complaint after conferring with his UN interlocutor, Stephane Dujarric de la Riviere, the head of the UN's News & Media Division, formerly Kofi Annan's spokesman? Full Story>>>
