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Originally Posted by 57 On Red
No, he's just a shill for Assad, and he has destroyed his own reputation over several years by working in that capacity. He admits that his only 'witness' wasn't actually a witness to the chemical attack at all, and he declines to consider why Assad and Russia gave him privileged access even before they let the OPCW inspectors in, because they know he won't say anything they find inconvenient. He's a useful idiot, no more.
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Awards and honours
Fisk has received the British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year seven times,[38] and twice won its "Reporter of the Year" award.[39] He also received Amnesty International UK Media Awards in 1992 for his report "The Other Side of the Hostage Saga",[40] in 1998 for his reports from Algeria[41] and again in 2000 for his articles on the NATO air campaign against the FRY in 1999.[42]
1984 Lancaster University honorary degree[43]
1991 Jacob's Award for coverage of the Gulf War on RTÉ Radio 1[44]
1999 Orwell Prize for journalism[45]
2001 David Watt Prize for an investigation of the 1915 Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire[46]
2002 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism[47]
2003 Open University honorary doctorate[48]
2004 University of St Andrews honorary degree[49]
2004 Carleton University honorary degree[50]
2005 Adelaide University Edward Said Memorial lecture[51]
2006 Ghent University honorary degree Political and Social Sciences[52]
2006 American University of Beirut honorary degree[53]
2006 Queen's University Belfast honorary degree[54]
2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize worth $350,000[55]
2008 University of Kent honorary degree[56]
2008 Trinity College Dublin honorary doctorate[57]
2009 College Historical Society's Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse[58]
2009 Liverpool Hope University honorary degree[59][60]
2011 International Prize at the Amalfi Coast Media Awards, Italy[61]
who do you believe, a celebrated journalist or the rantings of a jihadi death cult paid by the pentagon and foreign office?