Sunday, September 25, 2005
Truthout
US Bars Robert Fisk from Entering Country, By Doug Ireland.
I would imagine that he's being shown that paybacks are a ...
It's awfully petty, though, to ban Robert Fisk from coming into the US, just because he's shown, in his articles, that our people in high places lie. Some of us already knew that. A few listened and learned. The rest paid no attention.
The internationally renowned correspodent for The Independent - the great British journalist Robert Fisk - has been banned from entering the United States. Fisk has been covering war zones for decades, but is above all known for his incisive reporting from the Middle East for more than 20 years. His critical coverage of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, and the continuing occupation that has followed it, has repeatedly exposed U.S. and British government disinformation campaigns. He also has exposed how the bulk of the press reports from Iraq have been "hotel journalism" - a phrase Fisk coined...
I would imagine that he's being shown that paybacks are a ...
It's awfully petty, though, to ban Robert Fisk from coming into the US, just because he's shown, in his articles, that our people in high places lie. Some of us already knew that. A few listened and learned. The rest paid no attention.
