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[Previous entry: "The Agonist affair"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Arrest of Naser Orić"] 11 April 2003: "Fisk redux"Colby Cosh rejects a suggestion he fisk a Fisk article, pointing out that Fisk's notoriety may only be helped this way. Nobody ever considers the possibility that if the silly twat is ignored, he will eventually go away.A tempting theory, but it cannot stand up to scrutiny. Robert Fisk has had a career for some thirty years, so evidently that career is not dependent on the existence of CounterPunch or the Web editions of the Independent, etc. In short, even if the entire Web were to ignore him, he would still get paid for his peculiar brand of "journalism." And let's face it, he's never going to be ignored enough to go away; it's beyond our control. On discussion fora everywhere, those who subscribe to the notion that America is the sole source of all evil in the world keep citing his articles as if they were truth. Whether the fact that "fisking" has become a common term on the Internet hurts or helps Fisk's career is less relevant than the fact that those of us engaged in discussions online are increasingly able to counter the citing of a Fisk column with a simple "You do know how the term 'fisking' originated, don't you?" rather than actually having to go to the trouble of fisking the article in question. So I say "keep on fisking!"; at least, when one can muster the energy. |
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