One of the best journalists out there, one of the few actual journalists out there has died aged 74 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...an-british-foreign-correspondent-dies-aged-74 Robert Fisk, veteran British foreign correspondent, dies aged 74 Journalist was reportedly admitted to hospital after suffering a suspected stroke please log in to view this image Robert Fisk in 2006. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/EPA Clea Skopeliti Sun 1 Nov 2020 17.02 EST 5,138 The veteran British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk has died at the age of 74. The journalist and author was reportedly admitted to St Vincent’s hospital in Dublin after becoming unwell on Friday. A source at the Independent, where Fisk was Middle East correspondent, confirmed the news of his death. Fisk was admitted to hospital after suffering a suspected stroke, according to a report in the Irish Times. Described by the New York Times in 2005 as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain”, Fisk won many prestigious awards over the span of his career for his coverage of the Middle East. These included the Orwell prize for journalism and multiple wins at the British Press Awards in the categories of international reporter of the year and foreign reporter of the year. After beginning his career at the Sunday Express, Fisk moved to the Times, where from 1972 to 1975 he was the paper’s Belfast correspondent at the height of the Northern Ireland Troubles. In 1976 he moved to Beirut where he began his career as a Middle East correspondent, covering the Lebanese civil war, the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Fisk was celebrated in the UK for his coverage of Lebanon and his influential and best-selling account of the conflict, Pity the Nation. He joined the Independent in 1989, and remained their correspondent in the region until his death, covering events such as Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and the recent wars in Syria. He also reported on the Bosnian and Kosovo wars in the former Yugoslavia. In the last years of his career he attracted criticism for his coverage of Syria’s ongoing civil war, with detractors - including some former admirers – accusing him of being insufficiently critical of his sources, especially those in the Syrian regime and army. He was unswayed by the controversy and maintained that he was writing only what he saw and heard. As his stature grew both in the west and in the regions he covered, his journalistic methods started drawing closer scrutiny leading to questions over the credibility of some of his work, though he remained influential and widely read. He was among the few Western journalists to interview the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, which he did three times during the 1990s. He was a controversial figure, known for his criticism of the US. Following the 11 September 2001 attacks, he faced a backlash after asking what had motivated those who were responsible for the attacks. Fisk also wrote books on Northern Ireland and the Middle East, including Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War and The Great War for Civilisation, in which he chronicled “the betrayals and treachery and deceit of Middle East history”. Fisk had ties to Ireland dating back to his reporting during the Troubles, after which he completed a PhD at Trinity College. Among other honorary degrees and awards, he went on to receive Trinity College Dublin’s Historical Society’s gold medal in 2009. Responding to the news of his death, Micheál Martin, the Irish taoiseach, tweeted: “Saddened tonight to hear of the death of journalist Robert Fisk. He was fearless & independent in his reporting, with a deeply researched understanding of the complexities of Middle Eastern history and politics. He helped many people understand those complexities better. RIP.” He was a rare animal in war reporting, and his honest objective reporting will be missed. He was also one of the extremely rare reasons to read the Independent RIP
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