Conversations with History: Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, discusses his experiences covering Middle East wars for the last 30 thirty years. Series: “Conversations with History” [2/2007] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 12185]
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Hes the anthesis of Fox news right wing nutters,and for that you gotta like him..
Thanks. Love Fisky.
The middle east is the only place in the world who need.. the ethnic cleansing specially the dirty camels
@ali12147 Yep. Watch some of his other videos. He believes the whole “clash of civilizations” argument is bullshit and he is also highly critical of all actors. The way it should be.
@AnatolyaTurkiye
i think its sarcasm, he doesn’t realy view these wars as ‘great’. he is one of the biggest critics of the western foreign policy.
@ali12147 Conveniently, the title fulfills some propaganda the west has been issuing regarding the middle east.
@Nostatementinthename
Yeh i agree, there are some good lectures on youtube by mr hedges though. Its amazing how men like Fisk and Hedges who have seen and experienced the terror of war are so opposed to it and the masses whose perception of war is based on hollywood are for it due to the heroism portrayed in movies. People dont realise the trauma of witnessing a body blown to peices on a regular bases and the suffering of the innocent victims because of our adventures.
@AnatolyaTurkiye
If you actualy read the book you would realise that he talks about his experiences covering the middle east which he has been doing for over 30 years. He doesn’t talk about the ancient history of the middle east rather the post ww2 era which he is most familiar with and which mainly involves the west. So based on what the book is about the title is totaly relevent.
@ali12147
Right you are… it’s a shame there is no interview like this with Hedges
@SkateGuy05 journalism is not free in any way. they are told what to say by their boss who is owned by the government/elites
He calls the book ‘the conquest of the middle east’, but the middle east has been conquered by the turks, persians, arabs, more than once. The title has a tone of ’superiority’ as if this is the first time the middle east has been invaded which gives a sense of glamour and superiority in the wars of the middle east. People forget the ww1 and consequently the wars in the middle east was caused by the collapse of the ottoman empire which resulted in a land grab for the areas without a master
@kuldi1000 “Lower middle class”? You obviously know nothing about England. Guy went to a private school, went abroad as a child, father was an accountant.
Robert Fisk, a true legend!
One of the few journalists alive today who tells things as they are and doesn’t care who he upsets in the process. We fail to recognise the importance of such people in the current climate.
why’s the interviewer going off his note cards? doesn’t he have question’s of his own to ask? Disagree with me if you will, but I thought journalism was based on the individual. Robert Fisk has been dissin’ this guy the whole time about it.
He’s a self-absorbed, self-congratulatory smart ass who thinks he knows, just knows, the truth. Jumping on Harry Kreisler to lecture him on academic snobbery was straightforward bad manners.
And The independent long ago went to the dogs. Bring back Bill Bryson!
That CharlesDickens guy has been going around Fisk videos posting the same stuff. He’s been at it for a few years now. I got messages off of him telling me all Fisk’s work is wrong and he writes to please people like Bin Laden.
If a news report said “Americans bombed a today killing three people” then whoever wrote it wouldn’t be giving a perspective, they would be giving little or no detail about what happened. I don’t think Fisk leaves such holes in his stories, quite the opposite.
Not saying he isn’t telling the truth, I am saying that when you come at it from a perspective and are strong in that perspective, it is easy to tell a story from the perspective you are comfortable from.
There is telling the truth from a perspective, and then there is telling the truth.
“Americans bombed a home today killing 3 people.”
or
“American forces came under small arms fire from a structure, and returned fire killing 3 terrorists”
@Brantoc Tell me something i dont know, i agree with you.
I hope your not implying that Fisk was telling porkie pies in his reporting. Fisk gave plenty of evidence to clearly show the bad guys in his reporting and work. The fact that he was a brilliant writer or story teller is just all the better for getting his message across. I trust him completely, he has nothing to gain taking on the establishment
Being a good teller of stories doesn’t make the stories factual. Journalism should be a search for truth and to present that to the public, not the presentation of a narrative.
Freedom is failing in large measure to a lack of journalistic integrity. It has always been there, but it is worse than ever today.
It sells more books and more papers to lie.
That way they can say YOU are greedy, while cashing big checks themselves.
Good news is Chamberlain would have prevented WWII in Europe, but the world would be speaking German.
If you are waiting for a leader without flaws, you will be waiting a very long time. What matters is when the chips are down, if they make the right decision not for political reasons but for the good of the nation. Churchill did, Chamberlain didn’t.
churchill was on old drunk, and a friend of aleistair crowley - not an easy choice ,-)
Is he a relative of Mr Fisk , the one who lived in Brazil?
@Bluegirl4me Piss of you fraud. Fisk was one of the few journalists you could rely on to go into great detail of the true cost of war and name the bad guys involved. He gave the arab people a voice. They were the ones suffering the most from these wars and the majority of the western world either didnt know it or didnt care. They believed they were all crazy terrorists due to propaganda and news distortion by heavily biased newspapers and media representing vested interests.
The mans a legend