Robert Fisk (12 July 1946 – 30 October 2020)
Award-winning journalist and Middle East correspondent, Robert Fisk, has died at the age of 74 in Dublin, Ireland.
LUMPENPROLETARIAT---Those of us old enough to remember the illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by the imperial U.S. military in the wake of 9/11, may remember the excellent reporting of award-winning journalist and Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk.
Some of us, who were in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time will recall the excellent radio broadcasts of, KPFA, free speech radio's Flashpoints interviews with Robert Fisk. He stood apart then, and now, as a fearless, courageous, and independent journalist. We pay him our deepest respects, and sincerest condolences to Robert Fisk's family.
Rest in peace, friend.
Messina
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ALJAZEERA—[25 MAY 2010, accessed 2 NOV 2020]
Journalism and ‘the words of power’
The relationship between power and the media is about semantics, Robert Fisk told The Al Jazeera Forum in 2010.
Editor’s Note: Robert Fisk, veteran Middle East correspondent of The Independent, died on Friday at the age of 74. During his decades-long career, he covered key international events including the Lebanese civil war, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iranian revolution, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, conflicts in the Balkans and the Arab Spring.
As a regular contributor to Al Jazeera, he addressed the fifth annual Al Jazeera Forum on May 23, 2010 with a keynote speech in which he argued that journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
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Learn more at ALJAZEERA.
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[2 NOV 2020]
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