Karnal wrote on Apr 11
th, 2015 at 1:34pm:
Soren wrote on Apr 11
th, 2015 at 11:10am:
Karnal wrote on Apr 10
th, 2015 at 10:02pm:
If a major broadsheet’s Middle Eastern foreign.correspondent is a propagandist, what exactly does that make you?
I’m.really curious this time, old boy.
Feel free to.reference Stalin in your reply.
Er... it's a tabloid (like the SMH).
Because of his bias and distortions, Fisk has entered the lexicon:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fisking So what, exactly, do you disagree with?
Let me guess, old boy. Fisk was one of the first to write about US losses in places like Faluja. He wrote about the US coffins piled up at the airport when Bush had declared a media ban on these images. He writes, in general, without following the Fox News rulebook on US triumphalism.
You know, like Paul McGeough, another "tabloid" Middle Eastern correspondent.
Have I got it?
No, you haven't.
McGeough made up stuff about Abbott wanting to invade alone.
Fisky is a similar propagandist:
Prince Nayef - an apology
ROBERT FISK Author Biography Thursday 04 August 2011
In his Friday essay on 15 April 2011 (" The Arab Awakening - a long time coming") Robert Fisk quoted from an order said to have been issued by the Saudi Minister of the Interior, HRH Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud on 11 March, in which he alleged that Prince Nayef ordered his security forces to show no mercy and to use live rounds on unarmed demonstrators.
Although the essay was published in good faith, we now accept that the "Order" in question is in fact a forgery, and that Prince Nayef did not issue any such order. We apologise sincerely to Prince Nayef for the damage and embarrassment which our reporting of it has caused him.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/prince-nayef--an-apology-2331133.h... That a journalist made a mistake or that the paper that employs him had the integrity to post a retraction and an apology?
Can't have it both ways Soren, either the Independent is a reputable source ...
You don't get to pick and choose when quoting it suits you.