how truly pitiful when a declining journalist can use his momentum and his Nation connections to obtain an interview with Robert Fisk, a man of integrity, character, understanding, insight and courage -- the real thing. coop has no shame: anything goes in an effort to hide his tarnished reputation behind a giant.
time to drop a line to Mr. Fisk at the Independent to let him know he's been used and by whom. and to share an idea or two with the LA Weekly, a rag that sold out over 35 years ago -- similar to the left-leaning Nation.
the age of geraldo indeed: how apt.
R
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:18:23 -0400 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Cooper interviews Fisk
LA Weekly - April 19 - 25, 2002
Beyond Disappointment
The Middle East, according to Robert Fisk
by Marc Cooper
IN THE AGE OF GERALDO, IT SEEMS almost an anomaly that a rumpled, 56-year-old professorial British-newspaper foreign correspondent could draw a string of standing-room-only throngs to American university auditoriums. But that's exactly what the London Independent's Middle Eastern correspondent Robert Fisk has been doing from Chicago to Los Angeles, generating an often rock starlike reception (a crowd of 900 saw him last week in Cedar Falls, Iowa!). Though he's rarely published in the United States (except for occasional short pieces in The Nation), Fisk has built a loyal following that pores over his every word via the Internet with almost cultlike devotion. Fisk, who has covered the region for 26 years, is considered by many to be simply the best and most knowledgeable correspondent currently working in the Middle East.
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