Showing posts with label Robert Fisk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Fisk. Show all posts
Jonathan CookSomething remarkable even by the usually dismal standards of the stenographic media blue-tick brigade has been happening in the past few days.


Leading journalists in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him, using the most outrageous smears imaginable. He is suddenly a fraud, a fabulist, a fantasist, a liar.

What is most ironic is that the journalists doing this are some of the biggest frauds themselves, journalists who have made a career out of deceiving their readers. In fact, many of the crowd attacking Fisk when he can no longer defend himself are precisely the journalists who have the worst record of journalistic malpractice and on some of the biggest issues of our times.

At least I have the courage to criticise them while they are alive. They know dead men can’t sue. It is complete and utter cowardice to attack Fisk when they could have made their comments earlier, to his face ... they had an absolute duty to say them when Fisk was alive rather than allowing the public to be deceived by someone they regarded as a liar and fantasist.

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Establishment Journalists Are Piling On To Smear Robert Fisk Now He Cannot Answer Back

The Critic ✒ The fact that fabrications can so easily be found in Robert Fisk’s work destroys his legacy of award-winning reporting 

Oz Katerji

The late Robert Fisk was as close to a celebrity as it is possible to get for a foreign correspondent.

I vividly remember the moment I met him after a lecture in Beirut in 2010: for a young journalist in the first few months of my career, it was almost like meeting David Beckham. 

I also remember the words he said during that lecture: “The Middle East is not a football match. It’s a bloody tragedy, and the journalists have a responsibility to be on the side of those who suffer.”

It’s an analogy I have used many times in my own life. Robert Fisk, who worked as a foreign correspondent first for The Times and since 1989 for the Independent, had the most influence of any journalist on my career. But it wasn’t because of his charismatic speech in 2010, or because of the many articles I had read that had influenced my understanding of the Middle East as a student.  

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Fabricator And Fraudster

Lara MarloweI had the honour of being married to Robert Fisk for 12 years. In my opinion he was the finest journalist of his generation. 


The word “controversial” has figured prominently in news stories and obituaries since the death of Robert Fisk.

I dislike the word, because it seems to imply that Robert’s immense achievements are in question. If Robert was controversial, it was because he refused to conform. In nearly half a century as a journalist, which saw him win numerous press awards and publish six books, he never followed the herd. His judgments were intuitive, rapid and, in my experience, invariably right. He could not be cowed by criticism. He never jumped on the bandwagon.

Robert’s first rule was to go there, be a witness, even if it meant risking his life. He scorned journalists who covered wars from hotel rooms

I had the honour of being married to Robert Fisk for 12 years. Between 1988 and 2003, we worked together on most of the big news stories in the Middle East and Balkans. In my opinion, he was the finest journalist of his generation, one of the finest ever. No one did journalism with greater courage, dedication, determination and intelligence than Robert. 

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Robert Fisk ➖ The Finest Journalist Of His Generation

Irish Times ✒ Highly regarded, controversial foreign correspondent had long relationship with Ireland.

Conor Pope

Robert Fisk joined the London Independent in 1989 and continued to work for that publication until his death.

Veteran foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk has died after becoming unwell at his Dublin home on Friday.

It is understood the journalist was admitted to St Vincent’s hospital where he died a short time later. He was 74.

Fisk was one of the most highly regarded and controversial British foreign correspondents of the modern era and was described by the New York Times in 2005 as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain”.

He had a long relationship with Ireland dating back to 1972 when he moved to Belfast to work as Northern Ireland correspondent for the London Times at the height of the Troubles.

He subsequently did his PhD in Trinity College, completing a thesis on Ireland’s neutrality during the second World War. He owned a home in Dalkey where he lived for many years.

His career in journalism started with the Sunday Express in London but that relationship was brief and he soon moved to the Times.

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Veteran Journalist And Author Robert Fisk Dies Aged 74

Robert Fisk writes in The Independent that there are:

No More Excuses

From Organized Rage.

Robert Fisk looks at the history behind the Syrian civil war with passion and good sense.
 

Robert Fisk On Syria