Fisk writes like some old colonial ruler left behind by the imperialists the way he speaks of the 'natives'.

Beware the journalist who most states those things that you long to see said in the mass media.

Remember that in reality, ALL journalists are scum. A JOURNALIST IS A PERSON WHO WRITES FOR PROFIT AT THE BEHEST OF A MEDIA BARON. Under such cirmumstances, the words of EVERY journalist are tainted by definition. The purpose of their words is NEVER truth, but pleasing and serving their master. Fisk is the perfect journalist, striving to slant his every report to serve his Israel/Blair supporting masters of The Independent. Journalists like Fisk LOATHE the net, because the net provides an outlet for the opinions of those that are NOT paid to lie or spin.

Of course, Fisk is also one of Blair's most important 'useful idiots'. His handlers at MI6 (common name used for clarity) run the mock 'arabist' program, the active pretence that the Foreign Office still has a significant bias toward 'arabist' issues as a consequence of the aftermath of empire. Old braindead individuals like Fisk (60 years old this year) haven't been able to update their thinking for decades, and thus have the fossilised intellectual qualities required by Blair.

Thank god, in this age we no longer have to rely on the worthless dribble pouring from the senile lips of people like Fisk. Instead, journalists can now be totally replaced by comments from people in all kinds of non-jounalistic positions. As journalists are treated more and more commonly with the contempt they deserve, the bile they spew at the alternative commentators becomes ever more corrosive.

On a general note, it sickens me that there are those non-jounalist commentators that actively attempt to call themselves 'journalists' as if this gives them some kind of status, or superior right to be heard by the rest of us. The 'logic' they use was the same moronic logic that led some to say 'it is illegal to call yourself jedi when answering the -what religion- question on the census'. That people do not understand the concept of 'freedom of religion' leaves me open-mouthed in disbelief. 'Freedom of the press' is NOT the freedom to become an official 'journalist' but the freedom of all of us to comment on the things that concern us.

Reading Fisk recently, purely on a search for new facts, I was disgusted when this old moron told his readers that only when ***he*** told them something about Lebanon did it become a fact. What he really means is when it becomes apparent that a truth about Lebanon (like the virtual destruction of Israel's state-of-the-art warship) has become known to too many people by 'alternative' sources, Fisk will announce it so that he may 'appear' as an independent fountain of truth to naive readers, without giving anything away that could be learnt anyway. This trick defines almost the entire methodology of 'journalism' in both The Independent and The Guardian.

PS contemplate the fact that Fisk is still willing to spin on behalf of Blair and Israel even as the most depraved Israeli crimes against humanity destroy Fisk's own home, and the people that live there. Has there ever been a better definition of the word 'evil'.

Please click on this link because what is written is relevant and spot on

 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9289

Constrast this with the 10 MINUTE TELEVISED COVERAGE OF A PRO-ISRAELI RALLY IN LONDON WITH PRO-ISRAELI COMMENTS FROM THE BBC INTERVIEWER compared with a LESS THAN 10 SECOND verbal mention of an anti-Israel demonstration yesterday on BBC News 24 yesterday.

Also on Fox News Journalist said Lebanese fleeing the scene in their cars were, and I quote "fair game" for the Israeli Armed Forces.

NEVER IN MY 41 YEARS ON THIS EARTH HAVE I WITNESSED SUCH ONE SIDED COMPLETELY BIASED COVERAGE ON ALL WESTERN TV CHANNELS.

All you protesters yesterday, anyone who is a victim of pro-Israeli terrorism, your voice counts for absolutely nothing anymore in the Western TV Media. They are firmly against you.

ask pretty much anyone who has ever been eyewitness to something that made the news if the news report tallied with what they know...errors, distortions, statements in "quotation marks" attributed to people who wil tell you they said no such things.
see also
 http://www.outfoxed.org/