Robert Fisk, The Independent newspaper’s Middle East correspondent, gave an interesting address to the fifth Al Jazeera annual forum on May 23: Journalism and ‘the words of power’
“ They are not stupid. They understand words, in many cases - I fear - better than we do. History, too. They know that we are drowning our vocabulary with the language of generals and presidents, from the so-called elites, from the arrogance of the Brookings Institute experts, or those of those of the Rand Corporation or what I call the ‘TINK THANKS’. Thus we have become part of this language. ”
Robert Fisk, The Independent newspaper’s Middle East correspondent, gave an interesting address to the fifth Al Jazeera annual forum on May 23: Journalism and ‘the words of power’
