Robert Fisk, RIP

[TW Tone]

Great rebuttal to all the time serving creeps and shills badmouthing the late Robert Fisk.

The Smearing of Robert Fisk...Now That He Can't Defend Himself - CounterPunch.org

Something remarkable even by the usually dismal standards of the stenographic media blue-tick brigade has been happening in the past few days. Leading journalists in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert...

www.counterpunch.org

They're fake news vermin-

 

[Karloff]

They're fake news vermin-

It reminds me of Banksy mocking a 19thC painting by a person who could actually paint.

Amsterdam gallery owner recalls how sale of Banksy work saved staff jobs | Banksy | The Guardian

Kim Logchies-Prins tells how employees gathered around canvas, sold for £1.5m, to give thanks

amp.theguardian.com

It's the signature of the age, the rise of mediocrity and the assault on quality.

You never mock or denigrate someone who in your field can do things you yourself do not have the capability of doing. I make an exception for George Monbiot - he is a journalist and has earned the right to criticise Fisk, disappointed he did so with a tweet though.

 

[The Field Marshal]

It reminds me of Banksy mocking a 19thC painting by a person who could actually paint.

Amsterdam gallery owner recalls how sale of Banksy work saved staff jobs | Banksy | The Guardian

Kim Logchies-Prins tells how employees gathered around canvas, sold for £1.5m, to give thanks

amp.theguardian.com

It's the signature of the age, the rise of mediocrity and the assault on quality.

You never mock or denigrate someone who in your field can do things you yourself do not have the capability of doing. I make an exception for George Monbiot - he is a journalist and has earned the right to criticise Fisk, disappointed he did so with a tweet though.

That scuttery word “tweet” just perfectly sums up the essence of our superficial age .
As for “twitter” : what puny little birds do all the day long.

 

[Anglophile]

The anti Semites and anti Israelis awestruck at the cosmic radiance of Fisk - and genuflecting in worship....