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Originally Posted by Flavius

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You're getting like Kura posting BBC links. You're also getting like Texan for posting links to articles by people who are unashamedly biased. Your articles would probably carry a lot more weight if you could find centrists who agreed with you.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia on counterpunch.org

CounterPunch is a biweekly newsletter published in the United States that covers politics from a left-wing perspective.

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Steven Plaut has written articles in the conservative paper FrontPage Magazine and Jewish Press where he has been critical of what he perceives to be a bias against Israel and the USA. ([4] and [5]). In particular he has charged Cockburn and St. Clair (the editors) with publishing anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views. In May 2006, James Taranto, editor of the Wall Street Journal's online Opinionjournal.com website, referred to Counterpunch disparagingly as a "moonbat site." [6]

Originally Posted by Wikipedia on Robert Fisk

Fisk has received widespread praise on the political left and criticism from the right, the latter in particular for an alleged anti-American and anti-Israeli bias in his emphasis on reporting the ills done to the Middle East by the West from the Great War onwards, and the former for taking a position against the war in Iraq and occupation of Palestine.

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Guardian columnist Simon Hoggart (also a former Northern Ireland reporter), has leveled criticism at Fisk for being, "dreadfully pessimistic" since 9/11, because of his predictions that, "the (actions of the) West (in response to 9/11) was about to bring total disaster upon its own head." In support of this pessimism, he also cites claims brought forward in commentary submitted by Fisk over the years, specifically that, "a group of British soldiers lost in the desert," meant Desert Storm would fail, and that the bombing campaign during the Kosovo crisis would, "only make things worse" [5]. Any reasoning and/or context behind Fisk's claims is not addressed.

While acknowledging "his brilliant and vivid reporting", Hoggart subsequently concludes that Fisk's pessimism reveals judgement that is, "not just mistaken, but reliably mistaken. [6]."

A New York Times review of Fisk's book, The Great War for Civilisation stated that Fisk is "least informed about Israel," pursues his agenda "nearly to the exclusion of the pursuit of straight journalism" and allows his points to be "warped by his perspective." It is no wonder, the reviewer added, that Osama bin Laden recommended Fisk's reporting as "neutral."[3]

Fisk has also been criticized for asserting that journalistic neutrality is "no longer relevant" to the Middle East and that instead journalists are "morally bound ... to show eloquent compassion to the victims." [7]