AIM Report: U.N. Covers Up Payments to Journalists

Accuracy in Media ^ | March 11, 2005 | unknown

[JesseJane]

In the past, U.N. agencies have also sponsored "traveling seminars" for journalists so they write positive stories about U.N. projects.

When conservative commentator Armstrong Williams was exposed for taking money from the Bush administration, his credibility was cast into doubt and news organizations expressed regrets for having had him on the air to comment on public policy issues. Williams was tainted by a conflict of interest that should have been revealed to the viewing audience. He was said to be a channel for Bush administration propaganda.

[Mo1]

FYI Ping

[Peach]

Whoa! This should be interesting. I want names.

[ArmyBratproud]

ping

[Mo1]

Well let's see ... Who writes for The Nation

Hmmmm

David Corn?

Katrina Van Witch ???

[Peach]

I wish the print was just a tad larger but this is an interesting read!

[prairiebreeze]

Williams, a British-born socialist activist based in New York since 1989, does not hide his far-left politics.

Wow, the UN hired and paid a journalist like THIS?? I'm shocked, just shocked I tell ya....

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Unfortunately, this is the kind of thing we have learned to expect. We yawn at these payments because we know the left and the media are like that. They raise Holy Hell at the slightest hint of wrong doing by a conservative or Republican while they are committing the same thing but more blatantly.

They often strike first, accusing us of something and being highly indignant about it. The media will help them carry the charade for weeks. I have come to see it all as a cover for themselves. If we point out what they are doing they respond that it is just retaliation for them "catching" us. Then the whole subject is soon dropped.

[JesseJane]

Hmmm..... Names eh??

Fasulo's pro-U.N. bias, so evident in the lavish praise of Annan in her book, was also demonstrated in a March 16, 2004, story posted on the MSNBC website. She reported that Annan "is widely recognized as a man of principle and long-term thinking." Her source for this statement was an anonymous U.N. official.

Wurst, who works for the Ted Turner-funded U.N. Wire and Global Security Newswire, did not provide any more details about Turner or Soros grants to UNCA.

However, UNCA documents on the group's website indicate that the two groups have provided at least $20,000 to underwrite the awarding of journalism prizes for covering the U.N.

[JesseJane]

Just one more??

The same year, a "Special Lifetime Achievement Award" was given by UNCA to Barbara Crossette, the former New York Times U.N. bureau chief who went to work for Turner's U.N. Wire. The U.N. Foundation reports paying over $12,000 for a "Barbara Crossette Dinner" at the Harvard Club in 2002. In a recent dispatch, Crossette spewed venom at the Bush administration and its supporters. "Four years of ideologically driven, unrealistic, and outdated social policies have turned American foreign aid into a vehicle for the most intractable, irrational, and uninformed elements of the conservative right," she declared.

Who she calling uninformed, hmmm ??

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