The Pathetic Media – Part CXXIV

March 22, 2013

An African journalist interviewing the President of the United States and then writing about "President Obama Barack Hussein" would be laughed out of town by the Washington media establishment.

"How can such an unintelligent amateur attempt to write about the United States?" "Don't they have editors in their pathetic media?"

But when the Washington Post's Craig Whitlock writes about a new imperial drone base in Niger details like the Niger presidents name do not matter at all (screenshot):

Government officials in Niger, a former French colony, were slightly more forthcoming. President Issoufou Mahamadou said his government invited Washington to send surveillance drones because he was worried that the country might not be able to defend its borders from Islamist fighters based in Mali, Libya or Nigeria.

“We welcome the drones,” Mahamadou said in an interview at the presidential palace in Niamey.

For the record. The name of Niger's president is Mahamadou Issoufou with Mahamadou being his first name and Issoufou his family name.

That "Whitlock Craig" conflates the name of Niger's president, even after interviewing the man, is just a symptom of the rather provincial reporting the Washington media do with regards to Africa and foreign countries in general. According to the report the bribed president and his justice minister say that U.S. drones are very welcome in Niger. Yeah, sure. Why bother then to ask real people.

Anyone interested in the mood of other countries, especially with regard to U.S. involvement in their affairs, should look for other sources than those pathetic colonial court writers who dominate U.S. mainstream media.

Posted by b on March 22, 2013 at 09:04 UTC | Permalink

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WaPo, Reuters, CBS- indeed the Corp queens at the UNCA reporters brothel at the UN have now successfully incited at raid on the only independent media source critical of UN policy at the UN. This is a year long (more) campaign involving death threats, stalking and surveillance and slander against him. Next stop is to evict him from the premises on whatever pretext. Bigtime SCARY. This is the NWO baring its true face, and the Op Mockingbird intelligence agents baring theirs’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLAE1gBPXNc&feature=youtu.be

Posted by: JDrones | Mar 22 2013 9:28 utc | 1

This is the behaviour of a full-fledged MAFIA. This is outrageous:
http://www.innercitypress.com/unca2cbs4thq031813.html

Posted by: JDrones | Mar 22 2013 9:59 utc | 2

too lazy to google I suppose. Mamadou is the West African form of Mohamed.

Posted by: somebody | Mar 22 2013 11:37 utc | 3

no 2 JDrones, that is fun

Question: Sure. Okay. And I… I wanted to ask you this: yesterday, right after the noon briefing here, my office upstairs was entered without any notification to me, and I’m… papers were searched, photographs were taken, and so I am left with the question that I am compelled to ask here: w hat are the rights of journalists? Also, the President of UNCA (United Nations Correspondents Association) took photographs while this took place. What are the rights of journalists here to be secure in their papers… what was the role of UNCA in taking photographs and… and what… what safeguards are in place so that an inspection, even if characterized as something else, of an journalist’s office doesn’t in fact become a… essentially a raid where I could easily have been contacted, would have granted access… why… why did this take place and why… what safeguards are… are in place?
Spokesperson: Yesterday, a staff member with the Department of Public Information’s Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit visited your office to follow up with you on a question about the timing of the move-back date for the UN press corps to the Secretariat Building. On reaching the office, which was open, the staff member met with the Viet Nam News Agency correspondent who shares the office space with you. The staff member observed that there was a large volume of trash in the office, prompting her to contact Fire and Security personnel owing to serious concerns over potential safety, health and fire hazards. As I understand it, you subsequently disposed of the garbage that had accumulated in your part of the office. And just to answer your other part of the question, as a rule, DPI staff do not enter the offices occupied by correspondents unless there are circumstances necessitating such visits. And just to make it clear that DPI does not have the keys to those offices.
Question: Can I ask one… thanks a lot, I really appreciate that, I wanted to ask one follow-up. One, I… I am surprised that… that… that the UN Journal and… and other UN documents, many of which I threw out yesterday, were considered garbage. But my question is this: I have also received an e-mail this morning which asked me to remove from YouTube a video shot in my own office after the raid. When I arrived and found people going through my papers, I turned on the camera very openly, and I am wanting to know, does the UN… by what right does the UN tell a journalist to remove from YouTube a video shot in their own office of what they perceive to be a search of their papers?
Spokesperson: I am not aware of the details of that, and I need to come back to you on that, Matthew.
Correspondent: Thank you. Can I follow on that with a question?
Spokesperson: By all means.
Question: Is there any particular sensitivity at this time that we see rising, especially among the conservative elements in Washington, who after all are participants in paying 25 per cent of the UN budget, that in moving back into the other building that there is overt discrimination against journalists who do not work with State-sponsored media, who are independent, who are using new technology, and a favouritism to individuals who align with an elitist club that has no formal recognition in the UN, who have been given… who are being given a place to have a club function inside the reconfigured United Nations?
Spokesperson: I will take that as a statement rather than a question.
Question: Is there a consideration of the political factor, because there are Republicans who in the wake of the Heritage report are going to be focusing attention on cutting the budget of the UN?
Spokesperson: Look, I think you are conflating a number of points here. The move back into this building, the newly renovated building, has been long planned, carefully coordinated and has taken into account all kinds of considerations and requests. It offers now new facilities, new communications and I think that you will find that the vast majority of journalists are perfectly satisfied with the arrangements that they will have when they move back into the new building, and which you quite rightly point out, the renovation was funded by Member States. Of course, the United States is paying a large part of the budget, but all Member States have contributed to the Capital Master Plan, which is the renovation of the building. The point of the exercise was to make the building a more efficient place to work, so that we can work. “We” meaning United Nations international civil servants and the journalists and others who are here to be able to work in a more efficient way both for the international community and for the… in the case of the journalists, for the media outfits that they represent.
Just to come back, Matthew, to your question, about South Sudan. The Mission reported that last night in Pibor, Jonglei State, an SPLA (Sudan People’s Liberation Army) camp came under fire from unknown armed groups using RPG launchers. The SPLA returned fire and some 200 civilians sought protection at nearby UNMISS (United Nations Mission in South Sudan) premises while another 300 gathered at other Mission bases. The Mission reported that all civilians left by daylight. So that’s what I have for you, just to update you on that particular point. Yes, please, last question?

And this is the “news” of Innercity Press taken off Google – by Foxnews
And this here is Matthew Lee
Hooray to the internet enabling work like this!

Posted by: somebody | Mar 22 2013 12:04 utc | 4

http://www.democracynow.org/
OT, but maybe not, as the film and expose about the El Salvador option brought to Iraq by Rumsfeld is being shown in at least 14 countries, not has nary a mention in the US.
But Obama wants to look forward, not inveswtigate what horrors were wrought in Iraq by the US under Bush/Cheney. And maybe still in place under Obama’s extension and cementing of the executive power grab by Bush/Cheney….
Democracy Now! spent most of the hour on the expose, but there’s no mention of today’s program up yet at the Dem Now site.
Should have video/audio/transcript soon. Do not miss.

Posted by: jawbone | Mar 22 2013 13:15 utc | 5

Posted by: somebody | Mar 22, 2013 8:04:44 AM | 4
your unflattering photo of him is supposed to discredit him? the look of his non-mutlimillion dollar resources is supposed to convince us his observations and reporting are invalid? No sale, bimbo.
Lee is better informed about the issues than most “reporters” at UN if you listen to the daily briefs online.
If you want the news by the corp whores at UN, then take your WMDs, dodgy dossiers, derivative omissions, phony Arab Spring and watch them. I dont.

Posted by: pope | Mar 22 2013 14:18 utc | 6

Democracy Now is the slickest gatekeeper on the block. No doubt. Amy covered up 911 better than a thousand BBC’s (did you catch the authentic ftg of their “Bdlg 7 collapse coverage” for 20 mins before it happened?)
She is another millin $$$ fraud. Her money came from Pacifica, which came thru Ford, Broadcasting Board of Gov- NED (St Dept) and ultimately CIA. Sure, that fraud is a real hero. To see how she has changed, refer to her disgusting ‘journalism’ aka the Arab Spring.
When viewers mistake big budgest and gloss for the real thing? Small wonder you folks have no reporting- you have no viewers for it.

Posted by: JDrones | Mar 22 2013 15:00 utc | 7

6) sorry pope, you are misconstruing what I was saying. Or I was not clear enough.
Lee’s operation is obviously pretty efficient in ruffling all kinds of feathers (and getting publicity from it). Good for him. The video by the way seems to have been disappeared from youtube.
The fun fact is that he is able to run his one person operation in this way without hardly any investment costs i.e. the internet has levelled the playground. And the UN does not seem to have a legal way to get rid of him.
This part of the official answer to Lee quoted above made me laugh a lot:
” It offers now new facilities, new communications and I think that you will find that the vast majority of journalists are perfectly satisfied with the arrangements that they will have when they move back into the new building, and which you quite rightly point out, the renovation was funded by Member States. Of course, the United States is paying a large part of the budget, but all Member States have contributed to the Capital Master Plan, which is the renovation of the building. The point of the exercise was to make the building a more efficient place to work, so that we can work. “We” meaning United Nations international civil servants and the journalists and others who are here to be able to work in a more efficient way both for the international community and for the… in the case of the journalists, for the media outfits that they represent.°

Posted by: somebody | Mar 22 2013 15:02 utc | 8

“Anyone interested in the mood of other countries, especially with regard to U.S. involvement in their affairs, should look for other sources than those pathetic colonial court writers who dominate U.S. mainstream media.”
Been writing that for years. And not just for reporting on other countries, but the USA itself. The American msm is a particularly dumbed down example of the zionist media, it’s never been known for intelligent reporting, just base hype and prejudice. This historic lack of ethics and quality is probably because of a prevalence of the “used car salesman” mentality that is mother’s milk for most Americans. When the zionists later made their move into media, they really didn’t have to make many changes, the American media was already at the bottom, a bigoted, fascist mess of neanderthals who proudly wallowed in their ignorance.

Posted by: вот так | Mar 22 2013 17:56 utc | 9

@вот так – last warning – the post and the media with regards to Niger have nothing, zero, nada to do with Zionism. Stop involving such nonsense in every other comment here. Otherwise you WILL get banned.

Posted by: b | Mar 22 2013 18:40 utc | 10

“…the only independent media source critical of UN policy at the UN.”
Nonsense.

Posted by: ruralito | Mar 22 2013 19:19 utc | 11

There must be hundreds. Armageddon fantasists, American firsters, gun-lickers, libertarians…

Posted by: ruralito | Mar 22 2013 19:24 utc | 12

well, AT the UN? mebbe

Posted by: ruralito | Mar 22 2013 19:27 utc | 13

Posted by: ruralito | Mar 22, 2013 3:27:17 PM | 13
yes it is meant among UN correspondents. they are gross to watch in action. despicable entities

Posted by: pope | Mar 22 2013 19:53 utc | 14

b – 10
“@вот так – last warning – the post and the media with regards to Niger have nothing, zero, nada to do with Zionism. Stop involving such nonsense in every other comment here. Otherwise you WILL get banned.”
Your censorship about zionist influence is both revealing and self destructive for this blog. That is, if what you are after is getting to the truth behind the events happening currently and understanding their roots in the past. You are forcing people to pre-censor their comments while leaving ambiguous what they should pre-censor. IE: it’s not clear what is safe criticism of zionist influence and what is not. Most people critical of zionist influence understand this influence isn’t just Netanyahu telling Obama that he will continue building settlements on Palestinian land and Obama not trying to change that. In order to avoid being banned here, people will interpret your ambiguous rules about what may be ctiticised and what may not as “I’m not sure what is verboten here with regard to zionist influence, so I best not say anything about it at all”. Which is what is going to happen here. The comments section will then become just another “liberal zionist” as I have seen many others censored this way have become.
With regard to your specific comment here, I meant the media was zionist, not that there was a heavy zionist stake in Niger, or any. I didn’t touch on whether there was a zionist influence in Niger, I don’t know specifically if there is or not. My post was about media, and mainly the American media, so you misconstrued my post to mean something it doesn’t. Now if I were to find material about zionist influence in American media, which there is a ton of documenting this, would that be cause for banning here now? Same for documenting zionist or Israeli influence in Niger (if such exists)? You see what I mean. I’m sure everybody else here does.
By preventing discussion of this influence, and chilling commenters with threats of banning over these ambiguous “no go” subjects, you are effectively doing what the NYT and the Guardian do to prevent people being critical of zionism. You may think that this form of censorship of zionism’s critics has some merit, but most people just see it as being a defense of zionist interests that is being done in a less than honest way.

Posted by: вот так | Mar 22 2013 20:27 utc | 15

the post and the media with regards to Niger have nothing, zero, nada to do with Zionism. “
An intriguing statement – one I decided to test by simply typing ” zionism and Niger” into a Google Search box
here’s the first 3 results:

Police arrest 500 as group declares Biafra republic — The Punch … http://www.punchng.com/news/police-arrest-500-as-group-declares-biafra-republic
Biafra Zionist Movement in Nigeria Plans To Declare State of Biafra … http://newsrescue.com/group-declare-state-biafra-nov-5-2012
5 Nov 2012 … July 11th, 2012 By Toluwani Eniola The failed movement for the actualization of
the Biafran State received a revival yesterday as a pro-Biafra …

Biafran Zionist Movement declares Independence – Jide Salu’s Diary
http://babajidesalu.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/biafra-republic-biafran-zionist-movement-declares-independence
Cached 6 Nov 2012 … The real battle has just begun and President Goodluck now has his hands full to
keep Nigeria whole. Biafra Zionist Movement that decleared …

Which I have to say surprised the hell out of me – admittedly it is not NIGER but Nigeria, but still . . . I never heard anything in the Zionist Media about a ZIONIST Biafran movement, did anyone else here?

Posted by: TJ | Mar 22 2013 20:47 utc | 16

“The comments section will then become just another “liberal zionist” as I have seen many others censored this way have become.”
That should have been:
The comments section will then become just another “liberal zionist” back-patting club as I have seen many others censored this way have become.

Posted by: вот так | Mar 22 2013 20:48 utc | 17

TJ – 16
The google search engine is often as irrelevant as their translating engine is. Put a set of simple parameters into it and one comes up with all kinds of unrelated material. Often first, at the top, if there is a similar spelled wikipedia “advert” or msm stories using one of the words in the search parameters.

Posted by: вот так | Mar 22 2013 20:55 utc | 18

frankly it would not surprise me in the least if we “suddenly” discover, a week/month/year or two down the line that there actually IS a strong Zionist connection to NIGER
There certainly is in many war-torn countries in Africa eg:

Posted by: TJ | Mar 22 2013 20:55 utc | 19

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