Neocons accused of buying influence of Reporters Without Borders

[BurtWorm]

Faux journalism goes international?


http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,1487017,00.html

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Bias claim against reporters' group

International body denies being part of 'neocon crusade'

Duncan Campbell
Thursday May 19, 2005
The Guardian


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The international journalists' organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been accused of receiving money from the US state department and Cuban exile groups and of pursuing a political agenda.

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Journalist Diana Barahona... claimed ... RSF was "on the payroll of the US state department" and had received money from the Centre for a Free Cuba, an exile group. The reports suggested that Mr Menard had campaigned to have Cuban government accounts at European banks frozen in the same way as "the bank accounts of terrorists".

Jeff Julliard of RSF denied ... that RSF received money from the US state department directly but confirmed that it had received a grant of $40,000 (£22,000) from the conservative National Endowment for Democracy. The NED's website states that it receives annual funding from "the US Congress through the state department".

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A spokesman for the National Union of Journalists in London said yesterday: "It is very dangerous when press freedom organisations get themselves politically compromised by accepting payment from any government. It is really vital that all such organisations are truly independent."

[Robbien]

1. That is why these NeoCon shills blamed only Cuba for

Human Rights abuses. Not any other of the horrible regimes out there, just Cuba, and of course getting in some nasty words for Hugo Chavez.

Reporters without Borders is just a front group and as usual uses the slimey tactic of mis-naming their organization. People hearing Reporters without Borders will of course think it is similiar to Doctors without Borders.

Reporters without Borders, National Endowment for Democracy. Both names mean the opposite of what the organizations actually do.