Fisk. Real Foreign Correspondents Get Beaten

In brief, 09/22/2005 — Perhaps he should have waltzed in through Mexico with terrorists.

Is this fascism, or what? So much for freedom of speech.

U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance in the Lannan Foundation’s readings-and-conversations series Wednesday night.

According to Christie Mazuera Davis, a Lannan program officer, Fisk was told that his papers were not in order.

Davis made last-minute arrangements Wednesday for Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica Radio’s daily news show, Democracy Now!, to interview Fisk via satellite from a television station in Toronto. He appeared on a large screen onstage at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.

The controversial British journalist, who is based in Beirut, filed many eyewitness reports on the U.S. invasion of Iraq and criticized Western reporters for “hotel journalism ,” a phrase he coined to describe correspondents who covered the war from heavily fortified hotel suites and offices.

What annoys me is that this gives the bores at Pacifica radio more credibility than they deserve.

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  1. earnie says:

    Great points. He should have just crossed at the Candian border which is slowly getting to be a huge problem like the Mexician border.

    Speaking of facisim, did you see the total black out of news on the Able Danger hearings. No matter what you think about the story it at least garners some type of Congressional investigation. It was also funny yesterday to see Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), Arlen Spector (R-Penn), and Joe Biden (D-Del) representing pretty much the whole political spectrum outraged concerning the attempted cover up by the DOD.

  2. Karl says:

    You post a story making it sound like John Fisk was beaten by homeland security officials.

    http://www.dvorak.org/blog/

    In reality this picture is the same as another article about him being beaten by Afghan refugees in Pakistan back in Dec. 2001.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1699708.stm

    The pictures are identical. I don’t care for the bunglers in Washington either. Care to explain?

    Karl

  3. Zuke says:

    Ugh, Karl’s right.

    C’mon Dvorak, you’re above that kind of sensationalism! 🙁


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