Very sad to hear. I read a lot of Fisk in the 00s, when we didn’t see many journalists doing what he did, taking the positions he took. Saw & met him in 2007, at a talk w/young journalists where he said ‘You don’t give the slave and the slavemaster equal time’. Stayed w/me.
https://twitter.com/maryfitzger/status/1323003836450177024
Worth noting he said that in the context of someone asking about coverage of Palestinians & Israel.
He went onto talk about how it was a moral imperative for every journalist to not treat the oppressed and the oppressor as equal in power and how any journalism that does this functions more as propaganda for the oppressor than as journalism.
I stopped reading Fisk about a decade ago, his reporting seemed to move away from the advice he gave, but he had an impact on me as a 19/20 year old & I can’t deny that!
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