<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2715.400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080><FONT color=#000000>by golly, the energizer bunny of sleaze strikes again.   </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080><FONT color=#000000></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080><FONT color=#000000>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.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia>the age of geraldo indeed: how apt.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia>R</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080><FONT color=#000000></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080><FONT color=#000000></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080><FONT color=#000000></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080><FONT color=#000000>Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:18:23 -0400<BR>From: Doug Henwood <</FONT><A href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</A><FONT color=#000000>><BR>Subject: Cooper interviews Fisk<BR><BR>LA Weekly - April 19 - 25, 2002<BR><BR>Beyond Disappointment<BR><BR>The Middle East, according to Robert Fisk<BR><BR>by Marc Cooper<BR><BR>IN THE AGE OF GERALDO, IT SEEMS almost an anomaly that a rumpled,<BR>56-year-old professorial British-newspaper foreign correspondent could draw<BR>a string of standing-room-only throngs to American university auditoriums.<BR>But that's exactly what the London Independent's Middle Eastern<BR>correspondent Robert Fisk has been doing from Chicago to Los Angeles,<BR>generating an often rock starlike reception (a crowd of 900 saw him last<BR>week in Cedar Falls, Iowa!). Though he's rarely published in the United<BR>States (except for occasional short pieces in The Nation), Fisk has built a<BR>loyal following that pores over his every word via the Internet with almost<BR>cultlike devotion. Fisk, who has covered the region for 26 years, is<BR>considered by many to be simply the best and most knowledgeable<BR>correspondent currently working in the Middle East.</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>[snip]</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>