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KPFK Fund Drive Day 2
In a talk given at KPFA, our sister station in Berkeley, British journalist Robert Fisk laid bare the language of empire. Speaking to a packed audience on September 22nd, just a few weeks ago, the veteran war reporter deconstructed the words that journalists and the media use on a daily basis: terror, peace process, and surge, among others. His talk, titled “Lies, Misreporting, and Catastrophe in the Middle East,” helped the audience see through the daily double speak we are subjected to. The New York Times once described Robert Fisk as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain.” He is one of few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, and did so three times between 1994 and 1997. Robert Fisk has been voted International Journalist of the Year seven times and in 2006 won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. His books include Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War, and The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. Robert Fisk once said that journalism must, “challenge authority, all authority, especially so when governments and politicians take us to war.”

Thank you Gifts:

• The Great War for Civilization by Robert Fisk, Book – $100
• The Language of Empire by Robert Fisk – DVD – $75, CD – $45
• Robert Fisk Pack – Great War for Civilization BOOK + Language of Empire DVD – $150

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