THE MARCH OF UN-FREEDOM – AT 12:22 P.M. ET:   If you worry about the future of human freedom, read this.  You'll worry more.  From Climate Depot:

The United Nations has rejected the media credentials of three journalists from a conservative news outlet in Canada to the upcoming UN climate summit in Morocco in November. Nick Nuttall, a UN official, admitted in an October 18 CBC interview that The Rebel news outlet is being banned from attending the UN summit because of its skeptical reporting of the UN’s climate claims.

Nuttall tried to justify the UN media ban by noting that The Rebel TV host Ezra Levant has called UN promoted climate change fears a “crock.”

“What does [calling climate change a ‘crock’] add to the public’s understating?” Nuttall asked the CBC.

The UN’s Nuttall told the CBC, “I don’t see what he is actually reporting, you know, as being particularly helpful.”

But much to the shock of the UN official, the warmist Canadian Broadcasting Corp’s (CBC) Carol Off was having none of it. The CBC’s Off openly challenged the UN’s censorship of the media outlet.

“Do people have to prove that they’re helpful in order to be accredited journalists?” Off, who hosts the ‘As it Happens’ program on the CBC, asked the UN’s Nuttall.

A clearly flustered Nuttall responded, “Well, what do you think journalism is about?”

The CBC’s Carol Off tersely responded “reporting.”

As the Nuttall continued to dig himself deeper into a media hole, Off demanded an answer.

“I am just wondering again about he subjectivity of rejecting the credentials of The Rebel,” CBC’s Carol Off asked again.

COMMENT:  What is frightening is that this kind of censorship is becoming more and more popular on the left.   Our own president recently suggested that the internet needed some kind of filter to eliminate "crazy" ideas.  In his view, all those ideas are on the right. 

And too many news outlets, including the venerable New York Times, seem to have decided that slanted news is fine, as long as it is slanted in a "progressive" direction.  So when more and more people say in polls that they doubt the truthfulness of the media, they have a very clear point.

Read the whole article.  Well worth it.

October 22, 2016