Tea and terror with Robert Fisk

EXCLUSIVE: The journalist who interviewed Osama bin Laden three times and has covered the Middle East for over 30 years, tells Paul Harper about the illusion of objectivity and that the most important question is ‘why’. Photo: Alan Koon – Pacific Media Centre

‘The Warrior Creed’ – video of Robert Fisk at AUT University

Here, Robert Fisk talks about the “Warrior’s Creed”. US soldier’s used to carry the humanist “Soldier’s Creed” in their top pocket.
Fisk says Donald Rumsfeld replaced this with the “Warrior’s Creed” – a much more aggressive code of conduct.
Video courtesy of the Pacific Media Centre.
Camera: Kate Morse, Joe Rixon. Sound: Naveena Baratharaj.

Video from lunch with Robert Fisk at AUT University

A video excerpt from Fisk’s talk at AUT University yesterday.
Here Fisk talks about the failure of “50/50 journalism” and asks whether a journalist should get a balancing comment from the Nazis when writing about concentration camps.

Video by James Murray.

Audio from Lunch with Robert Fisk at AUT University

Audio courtesy of Melissa Fidow and the Pacific Media Centre.
Click link below to listen.

Lunch with Robert Fisk at AUT University

Over two hundred people attended a question and answer session with one of the world’s most influential journalists at AUT University yesterday.
The event was hosted by the Pacific Media Centre and sponsored by Amnesty International and AUT’s School of Communication Studies.
Robert Fisk, middle east correspondent for the UK’s Independent newspaper, has covered international events from [...]