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Robert Fisk R.I.P.

  • 02-11-2020 12:05am
    #1
    se25
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭


    Sad news on the sudden passing of the old style Middle East reporter Robert Fisk. Never afraid to lash into the Israelis /Iranians /Saudis / USA / EU,he called it as it was... despite being sidelined in recent years by organisations who did not appreciate his honesty, his legacy is a reminder of old school foreign correspondence at its best.
    May he RIP.


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  • #2
    Akabusi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Akabusi


    RIP. I remember his book on Lebanon well. Really worthwhile checking it out.


  • #3
    Midlife
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭Midlife


    Get the great war for civilisation. It has the Lebanon stuff but basically the rest of his career too.

    Poor Bob. Always felt sad that he fell in love with the middle east and then watched it burn up.

    Amazing author


  • #4
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    After leaving school, I don't think I ever learned as much history from one book as I did from this one:

    The_Great_War_for_Civilisation_-_Dust_Jacket_-_Robert_Fisk.jpg

    The one constant with Fisk is that he was for the man on the street in the Arab world. He saw that they were being hammered both by foreign imperialism and corrupt, incompetent autocrats and he tried to give them a voice. He will be missed.


  • #5
    friendlyfun
    Registered Users Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭friendlyfun


    He was a great friend of Ireland. I think he wrote his PhD ON the emergency in Ireland and was published as book. Never knew he lived in Dublin and died in St Vincents.


  • #6
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    friendlyfun wrote: »
    He was a great friend of Ireland. I think he wrote his PhD ON the emergency in Ireland and was published as book. Never knew he lived in Dublin and died in St Vincents.

    In Time of War, I have a copy that has long needed to be glued back into its binding, think I'll sort that tomorrow if I have something that'll do the job.


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  • #7
    DK224
    Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭DK224


    Eamon Dunphy should be given huge credit for giving Robert Fisk a platform on his airways here in Ireland for the last 20+ years. He was a regular on his Todayfm radio show, podcast and if I remember correctly he even had him on his short lived TV3 talk show.
    He was outspoken, unfiltered and helped educate so many about the true state of affairs in the middle east. His death will leave a massive void in its reporting RIP


  • #8
    s1ippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    Pat Kenny switched him off mid-sentence when he was taking about Duomo in 2018 and pretended it was in the interest of state security I believe.


  • #9
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,233 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i have a vague memory of PK having him on the TV about 20 years ago, talking about the middle east, and pat kenny referring to a possible 'final solution' for israel/palestine, and fisk just burying his head in his hands groaning 'oh pat, oh god'


  • #10
    3d4life
    Registered Users Posts: 803 ✭✭✭3d4life


    2006 episode of Desert Island Discs with Robert Fisk

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0093v0v


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