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I'm curious about the word "Fisking" in your banner. I've read some of the work of journalist Robert Fisk, who lived in Lebanon and wrote extensively about the Middle-East for most of his life. Is his work what your word refers to ?

Sort of, yes.

"Fisking" refers to a detailed, line-by-line critique of a work, named after Robert Fisk due to frequent, sharp, detailed rebuttals of his reporting by journalists and bloggers in the 2000s.

fisking: n. [blogosphere; very common] A point-by-point refutation of a blog entry or (especially) news story. A really stylish fisking is witty, logical, sarcastic and ruthlessly factual; flaming or handwaving is considered poor form. Named after Robert Fisk, a British journalist who was a frequent (and deserving) early target of such treatment.

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Calling Fisk a journalist, though, is problematic in itself. In the early 2000s, journalism wasn't dead yet - but Fisk did his best to kill it. He was an anti-Israel ideologue and polemicist who was rightly excoriated for his chronic dishonesty, driven by ego and ideology. He was no journalist.

 

But it was worse than the Independent admitted:

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Here's a bit of Fisk being fisked:

Robert Fisk: A Few Words of False History | HonestReporting

In The Independent, Robert Fisk writes "a few words of history" concerning Israel - a history that doesn't fit with the facts.

On the front page of the Independent, he nakedly lied about Israel dropping a uranium bomb.

Even after this was disproven...there was no retraction and no apology...because Fisk didn't have a single fuck give about truth:

He dabbled in blood libels, like saying the US congress was "in thrall to Israel."

He was also fond of the dual loyalty trope.

The Independent denies it was wrong for Robert Fisk to suggest that Jewish State Department envoys have dual loyalties - Campaign Against An

The Independent has claimed that it was perfectly acceptable for one of its most senior correspondents to suggest that American Jewish diplo

Yes, Robert Fisk was antisemitic.

Robert Fisk died on Friday, the news of which elicited considerable praise by some of his fellow journalists owing to his long career as a M

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