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Robert Fisk speech

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    #2
    esquier
    Registered Users Posts: 320 ✭✭esquier


    Excellent stuff, thanks.


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    Pazaz 21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭Pazaz 21


    That was excellent, one of the best lectures about the middle east and modern day journalism i have ever heard. Well worth watching, very insightfull. Thanks for the link.


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    Rock Climber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭Rock Climber


    Even if you dont agree with some of the ideas that Robert Fisk comes out with,he's an excelent orator and debator and those are well worth watching-thanks :)


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    johnplayerblue
    Registered Users Posts: 747 ✭✭✭johnplayerblue


    Thnks for that dave


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    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,072 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    The idea that if you “ask the question why”, or explain, or just repeat any reasoning/motive, you must be “one of them” or a “sympathiser” is very much so present on this board, or at least it was when I was a regular here (the politics board).

    Of course, it applies to any thing Northern Ireland related here, and Fisk’s thinking of journalists – generally – not ‘asking why’, or not been allowed to, can be applied to the Irish media and the north. But not asking why can be applied to everything from road deaths to street crime and so on.


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    dathi1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭dathi1


    Thanks for that. ........Pity The Nation had a great effect on me in the early 90's and I'm half way through The Great war For Civilisation now..well recommended.


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    tallus
    Registered Users Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭tallus


    I'm reading Pity the nation myself right now


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