He has also been voted International Journalist of the Year seven times | Fisk is a pacifist and has never voted |
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And I have spent my entire career—in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad—watching the people within those borders burn | Simon Houpt, "Journalism documentary This Is Not a Movie plays like Robert Fisk's greatest hits and misses: Yung Chang's new National Film Board doc looks at the career of the veteran British foreign correspondent" |
In a 2002 appearance at the Cambridge Union Society, actor John Malkovich when asked whom he would most like to "fight to the death", replied that he would "rather just shoot" journalist Robert Fisk and British MP George Galloway.
Ahmad, Muhammad Idrees 3 November 2016 | Palma, Bethania 20 April 2018 |
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Fisk, Robert 26 March 2006 | In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East |
" He has quoted with approval the Israeli journalist Amira Hass: "There is a misconception that journalists can be objective.
Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation, 2005, p | |
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He has published a number of books and reported on several wars and armed conflicts | Fisk reacted with outrage at both the comment made by Malkovich and for also "associating me with a jerk like Galloway" |
Fisk, Robert 1 January 2020.
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