The July-August issue of Foreign Policy magazine has an article, "How to Defuse the Bolton Bomb," attacking U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton. It is written by Barbara Crossette, identified as U.N. bureau chief for the New York Times from 1994-2001 and now "a consulting editor at the United Nations Association of the United States." The latter is a main component of the pro-U.N. lobby.But the Times affiliation is what is most interesting. Here we have a case of a former reporter and bureau chief for the Times who covered the United Nations and now works for the pro-U.N. lobby and has put her name on an article attacking America's Ambassador to the world body. This is an example of the "revolving door" between politics and journalism. One has to be a fool to suppose that Crossette's left-wing bias only emerged after she left the employ of the Times. Her work for the U.N. Association demonstrates that left-wing reporters covering the U.N. will always have a home in the U.N. lobby after they leave journalism.
Before going to work for the U.N. Association, she worked for something called U.N. Wire, funded by U.N. sugar daddy Ted Turner.
The piece is laughable. "As is his right," she says, "Bolton has replaced staffers at the mission in New York with loyalists and true believers." She cites only one, Richard "Terry" Miller, who had been added to the Bolton team at the U.S. Mission. Crossette neglects to mention that Peggy Kerry, John Kerry's equally liberal sister, is still at the U.S. Mission to the U.N., where she handles relations with left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Bolton can't replace her-or most of the staff up there-because they are considered career civil servants.