OH dear… Now we have all these liberal reporters taking pay from the UN. And weren’t some of the organizations these writers work for most outraged at the payola (wasn’t that what it was called) that Bush was giving to promote his education policies. Well, read on. Looks like what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Maybe we all need to take a close look at who is funding what kind of “journalism” that we get these days in the States and elsewhere…
[quote]Given the oil-for-food and peace-keepers-for-sex scandals in the United Nations of late, one might expect the press corps covering that international body to conduct their own business in the most scrupulous manner. But recent reports and complaints suggest that even the United Nations Correspondents Association is not whistle-clean.
The UNCA is a not-for-profit membership organization, insiders say, whose associates represent most major U.S. and international newspapers and, of course, broadcast networks. Journalists centered at the United Nations are presumably assigned to cover the General Assembly, Security Council and all ancillary U.N. departments and organizations with an impartial eye.
The UNCA leadership and some of its members, on the other hand, seem mired in such conflicts of interest. The group fails to censure members who work for the United Nations or member states. Its members go on all-expense-paid junkets. The group takes funding from from political activists and outside organizations that could also affect UN coverage. And in perhaps the biggest blunder of all, the UNCA hired as its