Voice from the Commonwealth Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts
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Ha! Fisk is denouncing journalists covering the Middle East for distorting the facts. Now that is rich.
An award winning British journalist is criticising his colleagues in the Middle East for using government inspired language that distorts the reality on the ground. ''The language of Middle East journalism has become so cowardly, so slippery, so deferential, so lofty of the phrases used by the State Department, the president, the U.S. diplomats, Israeli officials,'' Robert Fisk told an overflowing audience in Toronto earlier this month while on a series of speaking engagements in Canada.
For example, U.S. and some Canadian journalists, he says, are falling in step with a directive originally issued by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that American diplomats say ''disputed'' instead of ''occupied'' in referring to the armed Israeli presence on the West Bank and Gaza.
The result is the erasing from the journalists' lexicon of the reality of illegal Jewish colonies and Israeli army checkpoints crisscrossing the Palestinian territories, according to Fisk, a reporter with London's Independent newspaper.
'Disputed', you see, suggests an argument about land deeds or conflicting 'heritage claims' as CNN once memorably called them.''
So everyone should understand and look at the situation exactly as Robert Fisk. If not you are a lackey of the Jew...I mean Israeli/American conspiracy.
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