-- On 10 Apr 2003 at 14:28, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Fisk and I would disagree politically if we ever met in person, I'd wager, and I have no brief to defend his political views. But from the perspective of a fellow journalist, well, we sometimes make honest mistakes at the best of times, and probably even more so in wartime. You're accusing him of intentionally telling a lie, and to agree I'd have to at the very least look at the wording of his report.
Read fisk's account: http://tinyurl.com/995f
Disagreeing with a reporter's political views does not mean that all their claims of fact are wrong and maliciously so.
Compare Fisk's account, with more mainstream accounts of the same events: http://tinyurl.com/9966 The problem is not that Fisk argued that Saddam should win, the problem is that he claimed that with his own eyes he saw decisive and irrefutable evidence that Saddam was winning, or at least not losing nearly as fast as was claimed. He claimed "the Americans had been caught lying again", when as events proved, they were speaking the truth. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG G1k65SCJYsdVwpW2iXlft89KPTWuH3Fio5GZ2VWi 4LPUtiGFyLoxDyzZvhOWod9MiNRkUAdlInq1fjBbV