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How's the rest of her column? Not having time to finish it, my skimming puts it in the "2011-12 was cool, after that everyone sucked" category. How seriously is she taken in the UK? (i.e. is it worth slogging through?) On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > On 1/16/17 5:10 PM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote: > >> >> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/after-aleppo-the-stakes-in-syria/ >> > > Pure undiluted garbage that has the gall to cite Robert Fisk as an expert > on Syria. Isn't Mather aware that he only reports from Syria embedded in > the Syrian army? Or maybe she does and doesn't let it bother her. > > http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/robert-fisk-wont-tell-truth-syria- > because-like-bashar-al-assad-he-fears-it-1575581 > > Things didn't begin well for Fisk regarding his coverage of the Syrian > revolution. In a 2005 article for The Independent, Fisk very aptly warned > of the dangers of journalists "embedding" with the British and US armed > forces during the Iraq war due to it undermining journalistic integrity for > the sake of security. > > Fast forward to 2012, however, at a time when the Assad regime, backed by > Iran and Hezbollah, had unleashed a war of annihilation against > revolutionary Syrians, and, in a reversal of his earlier appeals against > journalists sacrificing integrity for security, Robert Fisk decides to > embed himself right among the Assad regime forces in Aleppo and Damascus. > As other western journalists were risking their lives to report Assad's > massacres of civilians, including The Sunday Times' Marie Colvin, who was > killed by the Assad regime in what they called an accident, but which was > almost certainly not (one suspects that this is what journalists who report > the truth on Syria get, as opposed to those who simply push propaganda). > > As you'd expect, from Fisk's unscrupulous start in Syria, things went > downhill in terms of his coverage. At every major point of the war, Fisk > has trumpeted the Assad regime and Russian propaganda. In August 2012, > after the Assad regime had unleashed its death squads on residents of the > town of Darayya, a hotspot for protests against Assad and rebel activity, > murdering between 200-500 people, Fisk chose to peddle the absurd Assad > regime line that it was actually the rebels who committed the massacre. > > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
