Robert Fisk - Journalism Quotes

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Journalism is about watching and witnessing history and recording it as honestly as we can... At best, journalists sit at the edge of history as vulcanologists might clamber to the lip of a smoking crater... to peer over... at what happens within.

Robert Fisk

And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

Robert Fisk

I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.

Robert Fisk