Fisk takes a nostalgic look at the past

Robert Fisk asks an important question in this morning's Independent.

His article War reporters used to prefer morality over impartiality asks whether the modern war reporter lives up to the language and writing of the old time correspondent

It's not just the power of the writing I'm talking about here; the screaming soldiers, the dying Communard, the condemned men, the woman wanting to sell her car, the death of an age, the flowers. These reporters were spurred, weren't they, by the immorality of war. They cared. They were not frightened of damaging their "impartiality". I wonder if we still write like this.

asks Fisk.

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