British - Journalist | July 12, 1946 -
It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.
Robert Fisk
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U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.
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President Bush will come here and there will be new 'friends' of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who 'liberated' them.
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Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.
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The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.
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Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.
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In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?
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A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.
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And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.
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The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.
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I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
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One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.
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