http://dagblog.com/link/robert-fisk-middle-east-correspondent-or-novelistic-storyteller-32992 Comments for "Robert Fisk: Middle East correspondent or novelistic storyteller?" en http://dagblog.com/comment/294759#comment-294759 <a id="comment-294759"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/294754#comment-294754">they published another tell</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Consortium News</strong><em> asked As`ad AbuKhalil, our Middle East columnist, to write an assessment of the recently deceased correspondent Robert Fisk. AbuKhalil did not wait until Fisk could no longer respond to criticism, as others <a href="https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2020-11-30/journalists-smear-robert-fisk/">have</a>. He started criticizing Fisk’s work in a series of <a href="https://angryarab.blogspot.com/search?q=Fisk">blog posts</a> dating back to 2005.</em></p> <p>Edit to add <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2020/12/01/the-angry-arab-robert-fisk-the-decline-of-western-reporting-on-the-middle-east/">link</a>.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:20:30 +0000 A Guy Called LULU comment 294759 at http://dagblog.com http://dagblog.com/comment/294754#comment-294754 <a id="comment-294754"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/robert-fisk-middle-east-correspondent-or-novelistic-storyteller-32992">Robert Fisk: Middle East correspondent or novelistic storyteller?</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>they published another tell-all, this one not so genteel:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Extremely painful to read... but <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/robertfisk?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#robertfisk</a> 's relationship with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Assad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Assad</a>'s propagandists did immense damage to those of us trying to work freely and truthfully in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Syria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Syria</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/journalism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#journalism</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/freepreess?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#freepreess</a><br /><br /> Fabricator and fraudster <a href="https://t.co/GU6Lgw2WSf">https://t.co/GU6Lgw2WSf</a></p> — Janine di Giovanni (@janinedigi) <a href="https://twitter.com/janinedigi/status/1333519496989040645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> <p>author <em>Oz Katerji is a writer, journalist and filmmaker with a focus on the Middle East, and host of the podcast Corbynism: The Post-Mortem</em></p> </div></div></div> Wed, 02 Dec 2020 07:05:01 +0000 artappraiser comment 294754 at http://dagblog.com