Sat, 29 Mar 2003
Telling it like it is
In case you're not familiar with his writing, Robert Fisk
is one of the most experienced western journalists specialising in Middle
Eastern affairs.
This
is a transcript of a speech he gave at Concordia University in Montreal, in
November 2002. In it, he discusses a wide range of topics -- from
journalistic laziness and evasion (the easy route is simply to regurgitate
what the foreign office officials put in front of you) to gross western
hypocrisy over the Turkish genocide against the Armenians in 1915, and a
chilling meeting with Osama bin Laden in 1997, in a terrorist training
camp built by the CIA.
Compelling stuff, from a guy who hasn't forgotten a time when it was
"the duty of journalists, and I quote her [Amira Kass], to
monitor the centers of power".
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