Fisk: "Mouse journalism" in Iraq
"The Independent's famously intrepid Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk has revealed that the situation in Iraq is now so dangerous that he doesn't know whether he can go on reporting from the country.
Fisk, who has previously accused colleagues of practising 'hotel journalism' in Iraq, said that 'mouse journalism' is now the best he can do in the country ...
"'When I went to the city morgue in Baghdad one day nearly four weeks ago, I arrived at 9am and there were nine violent death corpses there.'
"'By midday there were 26 corpses. When I managed to get access to the computer system of the mortuary, I discovered that in July 1,100 Iraqis had been killed in Baghdad alone.'
"'Multiply that across Iraq and you are talking about 3,000 a month or more, which means 36,000 a year.'
"'So these figures claiming 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualties are not necessarily conservative at all. But no-one wants to report on this.'"
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Fisk, who has previously accused colleagues of practising 'hotel journalism' in Iraq, said that 'mouse journalism' is now the best he can do in the country ...
"'When I went to the city morgue in Baghdad one day nearly four weeks ago, I arrived at 9am and there were nine violent death corpses there.'
"'By midday there were 26 corpses. When I managed to get access to the computer system of the mortuary, I discovered that in July 1,100 Iraqis had been killed in Baghdad alone.'
"'Multiply that across Iraq and you are talking about 3,000 a month or more, which means 36,000 a year.'
"'So these figures claiming 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualties are not necessarily conservative at all. But no-one wants to report on this.'"
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Categories: Iraq, war, Robert, Fisk, journalists, media, usa, america, uk, bush, blair
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