Posted by PandB
on April 17, 2018, 8:39 am, in reply to "From an article in the Spectator in 2003....."
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: "In the www arena where the world speaks
: invisibly to itself, a new word has
: appeared: ‘fisking’, meaning the selection
: of evidence solely in order to bolster
: preconceptions and prejudices. Just as
: cardigans or mackintoshes are named after an
: inventive individual, so fisking derives
: from the work of Robert Fisk, the Middle
: East correspondent of the Independent,
: stationed these many years in Beirut. "
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: A well respected and experienced war
: journalist at the site of the alleged
: attack, completely unhindered from moving
: around and interviewing people.
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: As opposed to a US state-funded 'medical'
: organisation in Turkey.
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: I wonder which is more convincing?
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