Saw this one coming from a mile away...
Want to fly to Bali and cover the UN Climate Meeting for your newspaper?
You might have some problems - from
NewsBusters:
Skeptics Denied Press Credentials at UN Climate Meeting in Bali
Want more proof of just how biased the United Nations is?
A group of reporters representing the conservative newspaper Environment & Climate News were refused press credentials to attend the U.N.'s climate change meeting in Bali this week.
I kid you not.
The paper's publisher, the Heartland Institute, released the following statement Monday:As the first goals of the Kyoto Protocol are about to expire, the United Nations is preparing a "Conference of the Parties," the highest decision-making authority. The meeting will take place in Bali, Indonesia from December 3 to December 5.
But the event lost any claim of impartiality when organizers rejected attempts by representatives of Environment & Climate News to receive press accreditation for the conference.
UN press office coordinator Carrie Assheuer said the newspaper's representatives "do not meet the criteria for press accreditation." Environment & Climate News has been in continual publication for 10 years; is sent to more than 75,000 elected officials, opinion leaders, and environmental professionals in the United States; and is one of five newspapers published the by 23-year-old Heartland Institute.
Rope, tree -- some assembly required...
Posted by DaveH at December 6, 2007 9:54 AM