Here is what he wrote today:
The Israelis have just bombed Khiam prison. An interesting target since this was the jail in which Israel's former proxy militia, the South Lebanon Army, used to torture male prisoners by attaching electrodes to their penises and female prisoners by electrocuting their breasts. When the Israeli army retreated in 2000, the Hizbollah turned the prison into a museum. Now the evidence of the SLA's cruelty has been erased. Another "terrorist" target.
2006-07-23 11:59:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Hmmm...let me see, should I believe Fisk who was one of two Western journalists to stay in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war and also one of the few western journalists covering the Middle East who speaks fluent Arabic, during the 2003 Iraq War, was stationed in Baghdad and filed many eyewitness reports....
or,
Hotel journalists, couch pundits, people who reads what they want to read...?
My money is on Fisk!
PS: Histories were written by the victors, Fisk is one of them who gives us an insight of the defeated, picking up the pieces.
2006-07-23 18:39:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Robert Fisk is the least credible "journalist" to report on the conflict from a neutral point of view. His anti-Israelis views are legendary.
A New York Times review of Fisk's book, The Great War for Civilisation stated that Fisk is "least informed about Israel," pursues his agenda "nearly to the exclusion of the pursuit of straight journalism" and allows his points to be "warped by his perspective." It is no wonder, the reviewer added, that Osama bin Laden recommended Fisk's reporting as "neutral."[2]
Fisk has also been criticized for asserting that journalistic neutrality is "no longer relevant" to the Middle East and that instead journalists are "morally bound ... to show eloquent compassion to the victims."
He is so increadibly stupid and biased that after a close encounter with Afghans where he was beaten to a pulp, his reaction was: "If I were them, I'd have beaten me too".
He was one of the most prominent "journalists" in dancing in the pool of blood of the so-called "Jenin Massacre", radiating the fairy tales about "mass killings" and "humanitarian tragedy and slaughter". All Palliwood inventions, discarded by the UN investigation commision.
To sum up: Robert Fisk's reports from Lebanon are worth sh*t, unless you read what you want to read, instead of neutrl reporting. I could wipe my a*s with his reports.
2006-07-23 19:28:49 · answer #2 · answered by Kafir 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like propaganda too me. He couldn't write a more anti-Israeli piece of crap than that. Totally one sided and probably not true.
2006-07-23 19:04:09 · answer #3 · answered by jack f 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thought fisk is Jewish.. The name seemed like it..
2006-07-23 22:19:20 · answer #4 · answered by chocolate_chip_cookie01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YA i think its kinda cool but really cruel
2006-07-23 19:05:51 · answer #5 · answered by Luke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so what, if is true that khiam prison is a torutre site we have our own in guatamano, in every war there is one like this.
2006-07-23 19:07:37 · answer #6 · answered by lepactodeloupes 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Propaganda.. propaganda.. Each side wanting others to believe their bull. And you fell for it.
2006-07-23 19:03:29 · answer #7 · answered by InnerCircle 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋