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Establishment journalists are piling on to smear Robert Fisk now he cannot answer back
Cook, Jonathan
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2020-11-30/journalists-smear-robert-fisk/Date Written: 2020-11-30 Publisher: Jonathan Cook Blog Year Published: 2020 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24752 Leading journalist in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him, using the most outrageous smears imaginable. Abstract: - Excerpt Something remarkable even by the usually dismal standards of the stenographic media blue-tick brigade has been happening in the past few days. Leading journalist in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him, using the most outrageous smears imaginable. He is suddenly a fraud, a fabulist, a fantasist, a liar. What is the most ironic is that the journalists doing this are some the biggest frauds themselves, journalists who have made a career out of deceiving their readers. In fact, many of the crowd attacking Fisk when he cn no longer defend himslef are preceisly the journalists who have the worst record of journalistic malpractice and on some of the biggest issues of our times. Subject Headings |