MEDIA COVERAGE
No recent coverage by major Canadian mainstream journalists...
WHY NOT?
Why is there next to ZERO coverage re: the upcoming UNITED NATIONS SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE in mainstram media?
The ONLY reference to this UN gathering in September 2024, on the website of Canada's premier News Wire Service The Canadian Press, is from September 2023:
“I have no illusions,” [United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres] said. “Reforms are a question of power. I know there are many competing interests and agendas. But the alternative to reform is not the status quo. The alternative to reform is further fragmentation. It’s reform or rupture.”
That is the conundrum sitting in the U.N. chief's lap: Can 193 nations with competing agendas undertake major reforms?
To meet the challenge, Guterres has called on world leaders to attend a “Summit of the Future” at next September’s U.N. global gathering, and in the coming, year to negotiate a “Pact for the Future.” At a meeting Thursday to prepare, he told ministers that the pact “represents your pledge to use all the tools at your disposal at the global level to solve problems – before those problems overwhelm us.”
THIS EVENT IS NOW FIVE WEEKS AWAY and THE CANADIAN PRESS has NOT PUBLISHED ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
(Try searching for UN summit of the future on CBC, CTV, GlobalNews & Canadian Press.)
With no updated coverage of the upcoming United Nations Summit in the Canadian Press News wire service, there is also nearly nothing in other Canadian mainstream news platforms.
We found this coverage in SOCIABLE:
Addressing the online Roundtable on the Human Future humanfuture.org in July, Lopez Claros presented this vision as reported in The Sociable, a tech news publication.
This is how the UN covers the upcoming event itself:
“We must set our sights squarely on the Summit of the Future – the pivotal event of 2024 – where world leaders are expected to gather here in New York and forge a new global consensus on how to better deliver for people and planet,” [UN Assembly President Dennis Francis] said.
With a focus on “supercharging” the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), preparations for the Summit will take centre stage from now until September.
“We must seize every opportunity to adapt our systems for good governance and the efficient delivery of global public goods,” he added. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145597