I was reading the second year blogs and there was a debate there between Maddie and Veronika and others about Afghanistan. I directed them to Robert Fisk a journalist who knows all that inside out - he wrote a very great book call The Great War for Civilization.
Fisk is a hero-journalism similar to Harry Evans, because he worked as foreign correspondent for the The Times before RM took it over. After the RM takeover Fisk refused to print a story he believed to be untrue about the shooting down of an Iranian civilian airliner by a US warship (the line was that this was self-defence because it was on a military mission.
Fisk did not believe that and the evidence came out that it was an act of unprovoked aggression or - at best - panic by the US warship). I think I have got that right - please check and post comments.
Fisk resigned over that and went to work instead for the The Independent. There's a lengthy interview here which covers the Iraq War, the Afghan War, the various Lebanese Wars, the Iran-Iraq War, 9/11, Osma Bin Laden. He has interviewed Bin Laden (in Sudan) and basically all the key players.
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I watched this clip and it is very inspiring. Robert Fisk talks about journalism and about being a war correspondent in the Middle East with such anger and passion so it tickles every nerve in my body. I made a few comments about it on my blog: http://madeleineklippel.blogspot.com/ //Maddie
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