
Being very important and busy blogging people, Joyce and I have 15 minutes between sessions. So this will be just a quick impression of An Hour with Robert Fisk:
- Truth doesn’t have to be the casualty of war
- If you see an atrocity why can’t you be angry?
- Debased, neutral language is the death of journalism
- Internet is increasingly being believed in but is increasingly unbelievable
- Quoted Iman Ali: we are either all brothers in religion or brothers in humanity
- Middle East should be swamped with Western tourists, not Western soldiers.
- It is OK to be objective on the side of those who are suffering.
- Journalists should not join the proscecution, and Fisk does not like journalists who are activists.
- He neither has the internet or uses email.
- Politicians either have journalists on side or don’t care what they say
The press seem to be representing the views of the people because …