"If you stand up to people, they'll respect you for it. I had an e-mail from a Cambridge University American law student, and he said, 'You are an evil f------ man,' so I called him up - he put his telephone number on it - and I said, 'I'm going to call the police if I have any more messages like this from you. This is an abusive, threatening letter.' And he invited me to give a lecture. I couldn't do it, but I would have done it if I'd had the time."
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A reporter who thinks objective journalism is a synonym for government mouthpiece, November 2, 2003
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Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk (born July 12 1946 – 30 October 2020) was a British journalist and war correspondent.
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