Arnaud de Borchgrave, dead

Arnaud de Borchgrave was huge in his days.  When I was growing up, he was quoted everywhere.  When I started reading him carefully in the US, I realized that he was quite an unreliable journalist who exaggerated and fabricated and inserted himself into every story he covered (a la Brian Williams, Robert Fisk, and Geraldo Rivera).  His views on the Middle East were a typical case of cognitive dissonance.  Sadly, he was taken quite seriously in the Arab media.   I will say this, however: his right-wing Washington Times had often more extensive coverage of the world than the lousy Post when I lived in DC, and I read both daily.