The Amazing Adventures Of Francis Bignose » Always gotta go with the Fisk. He just tells it straight. He’s been criticised for getting various facts wrong in his new book, and granted it is a problem. On the other hand it is a huge book and he worked on it with only one other person, and more importantly, he is fundamentally honest and straight in the way he tells things. In a media environment such as we are surrounded by, this seems strange to many, simply because the usual situation of genuflecting before the powerful and repeating the usual cliches and stock phrases unquestioningly is not there, so he reads to many like a careless polemicist, which is only the case when you get used to only subsitsing on the vast quantity of mcdonaldised news that is enourmous in quantity, but of the most foul and stupifying quality. Fisk is for all those who actually want to think, even if you don’t agree with everything he says. Compared to the vast majority of media reportage, foreign or domestic, Robert Fisk is Da Man