What makes Fisk conspicuous is his self-righteousness. The content and style of his writing proclaim that in his own eyes he is not really a reporter but the repository of truth. Other journalists are not up to their task; they are ‘nasty little puffed-up fantasy colonels’, warmongering collaborators of the wicked American–Israelis. He alone has the calling and the courage to reveal the evil rampant everywhere. Woe, woe, saith the preacher. Fisking is evangelical missionary work.It’s full of well-deserved criticism.
But where did Pryce-Jones get his definition of fisking? He has it as ‘meaning the selection of evidence solely in order to bolster preconceptions and prejudices’, and says he got it in the ‘www arena’. But that’s not the way I've seen the word used in the blogworld.
Is PJ just getting himself confused here, or is there really another definition of 'fisking' out there?
