Extra: Guterres Made Egypt State Media Pool for Sisi as Smale Admitted How Little Tony is Known - more here, incl on AFP / French connection
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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Dec 30 – As inside the increasingly marginal United Nations a process begins to select a successor to Antonio Guterres who banned Inner City Press from the UN as it reported on his links with briber CEFC China Energy and to sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, it is time to review the history. Part 12:
Also during the 2017 UN General Assembly High Level week, the last one Inner City Press was allowed to cover in-person before being banned by Antonio Guterres, there was a cover-up of his meeting with Egypt’s Sisi.
The UN claimed that Sisi’s state media Akhbar al Yom would be “pooling.” But when Inner City Press asked if their rarely present correspondent Sanaa Youssef - to whom the UN had given Inner City Press’ longtime work space as punishment for Inner City Press covering UNCA’s apparently secret meeting in the UN Press Briefing Room - who was allowed in the meeting ostensibly as pooler would say who was in the meeting, for example UN human rights staff, no information was provided.
It wasn’t a pool - it was a cover-up. This was and is Guterres’ UN. Inner City Press asked Dujarric, in-person, “do you think it’s appropriate that that be a media that’s controlled by the very Government-”
Dujarric: “I think what’s appropriate is that it’s a decision taken by the Correspondents Association.” Their Egypt state media retiree was a former president of UNCA.
With the UN calendar slipping into October, Alison Smale as Guterres’ first Global Communicator (before he brought in his closer / censor Melissa Fleming) told a staff Town Hall, In an October 3 “Town Hall” meeting in New York City on which Inner City Press has exclusively reported, Smale said there is a “need to get the Secretary General out there.” She said Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal, “is not so widely known in this country or indeed in other parts of the world.”
And that’s just the way they liked it, a virtual SG visible only through predictable quotes, with the Press that actually covered and cover him banned.
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