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U.S. immigration officials refused to allow Robert Fisk to board a plane from Toronto to Denver

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 25 September 2005
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Lannan speaker delayed in Canada

U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance in the Lannan Foundation’s readings-and-conversations series Wednesday night.

According to Christie Mazuera Davis, a Lannan program officer, Fisk was told that his papers were not in order.

Davis made last-minute arrangements Wednesday for Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica Radio’s daily news show, Democracy Now!, to interview Fisk via satellite from a television station in Toronto. He appeared on a large screen onstage at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.

The controversial British journalist, who is based in Beirut, filed many eyewitness reports on the U.S. invasion of Iraq and criticized Western reporters for “hotel journalism ,” a phrase he coined to describe correspondents who covered the war from heavily fortified hotel suites and offices.

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  • Reports have come out of DC that trains full of anti-war protesters were stopped or delayed from travelling to the District. I am expecting more efforts to curtail bloggers and alternative news sources. How long will it be until they start blocking sattelites and the internet? With companies like C**cas* and Y*h** already doing it for the FBI and the Chinese, it can’t be that far off.

  • Freedom of press? Sowjet style or Nazi style? America’s current government has to hide so many things, already condemned by the international community conducting torture or paying for it.
    It is time to treat American citizens and businessmen in the same way their Nazi government does to others.