From NYT: "A breed of reporters have made it their home and their career, few of them better known than the Englishman Robert Fisk. Now in his late 50's, he is one of the most controversial journalists of the age, winner of numerous prizes, much admired by some, including colleagues who respect his obsessive attention to detail and sheer physical courage, execrated by others because of what has been seen as his open hostility to Israel, America and the West."