Our leaders are happy. They have power. And that’s what matters.
"In general, then, the term "fisking" can be applied to any point-by-point critical annotation of another text. It is a mode of criticism well-suited to the WWW, since it begins by copying the full text of the target text, and proceeds to point out logical flaws and raise doubts. Since the fiskee's fixed text cannot respond to the challenges, the fisker can without too much trouble make the fiskee look ridiculous. While the term seems to have originated in conservative attacks against liberal positions, I recently came across a postmodern blogger who fisks an anti-postmodernist." ::: Fisking as a rhetoric construct / David G.Jerz / Kairosnews / 2003 :::
"So, long live the internet. It certainly seems to be frightening the guys who want to prevent Americans from hearing our voice on http://www.independent.co.uk "::: Robert Fisk/2001::://
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"The rationale was simple, of course. However disastrous or fanciful the reality, the machinery of power must continue to exert its baleful influence over our lives, the preservation of authority infinitely more important than us, its integrity supported by massive amounts of money and labour—even though provably worthless." :::Robert Fisk/2007:::
"We live in an uncertain and an unjust world. It's a scary place. The Da Vinci Code is the best selling book of our times. UFO sightings have dropped significantly since 9/11 because people have shifted from extra-terrestrial explanations to ones closer to home. Conspiracy theory is believed not because there is evidence for it - indeed the lack of evidence only strengthens it. It is believed because people are hungry for easy explanations and for hope.:::David Hirsh in The Guardian on Slipping Standards in 2006:::
"At best, journalists sit at the edge of history as vulcanologists might clamber to the lip of a smoking crater, trying to see over the rim, craning their necks to peer over the crumbling edge through the smoke and ash at what happens within. Governments make sure it stays that way. I suspect that is what journalism is about — or at least what it should be about: watching and witnessing history and then, despite the dangers and constraints and our human imperfections, recording it as honestly as we can." :::Robert Fisk about his years in Lebanon::::
"But being fair and being objective are not the same thing. What journalism is really about – it’s to monitor power and the centres of power.":::Amira Hass of Ha´aretz::both in::::::


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