AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 597) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | September 9, 2002 | All of Us

[A Citizen Reporter]

Truth be told, I liked watching him during the gulf war. However, since then, he's located in my city, it's the typical liberal clap trap all of the time he is on the air. I believe I've heard Rush poke fun at his reports from Saudi Arabia, about how afraid he was, I do remember that every time CNN went LIVE to him, he was putting on his gas mask....

[A Citizen Reporter]

Is this the man you remember?

Charles Jaco
On the Newswatch
Weekday Evenings
8:00-10:00 PM.

Someone must have forced him to wear a tie for this photo. In all the times I've run across him in St. Louis, I've never seen him wear a tie!

[Miss Marple]

He seems heavier than he was back during the Gulf War.

Excellent work on stirring up the media. Nothing like getting them fighting amongst themselves for a promotion! LOL!

No, my day hasn't improved, so I am going to bed. Tomorrow HAS to get better!! Good night!

[A Citizen Reporter]

Now, I'm having entirely too much fun.....liberals do not age well!

This is Charles from his CNN gulf war days....

[kayak]

Omigosh! I think that's him but the years have definitely NOT been kind to him ...... yikes! I wold not have recognized him from that picture if you hadn't told me who it is.

[MozartLover]

Hi UG,

Yes, it appears that she is doing pretty well over there. Sure is quiet here though.:(

Actually, that's half :(

.......and half :).

[MozartLover]

What ever happened to Arthur Kent?

[kayak]

every time CNN went LIVE to him, he was putting on his gas mask....

Frankly, IF they had found enough money to pay me to go over there, I probably would never have taken my gas mask OFF ..... so I can't really criticize him for that.

[Miss Marple]

Couldn't go to bed now that A Citizen Reporter is posting PICTURES!!

Arthur Kent is on The History Channel, introducing documentaries. Far from his "Scud stud" days, he looks rather seedy and his hair is getting a bit thin.

[Miss Marple]

[kayak]

I'm drawing a blank on Kent ...... I don't remember him at all. And I thought I watched coverage 24 hours a day .... it sure seemed like it. Our pastor's son was over there .....

[A Citizen Reporter]

I have to stay up to watch the Brit rerun, because I missed it earlier. It's too bad that the scud stud's days were pre-internet.....there aren't very many pics out there, of Arthur....

[MozartLover]

You don't remember the Scud Stud??? Hmmmm.........

We didn't have cable at the time so he must have been on ........ABC, CBS, or NBC...........I'm thinking ABC but I could be wrong...........

[A Citizen Reporter]

Yeppers Mozie, I believe it was ABC.....

[MozartLover]

I think so too........we watched a lot of ABC news back then, before Jennings went over to the dark side...........in fact we were watching Jennings the night the bombs started falling in Bahgdad.......

[kayak]

Oh, that explains it. I have never watched ABC for news. I generally stayed on CNN during the Gulf War .... occasionally checked NBC. CNN carried the live press conferences every day so I could see them myself rather than have them filtered through the nightly newscasts.

And I haven't watched CBS since the days of Doug Edwards (not dating myself much there, am I?!) ..... or were Huntley and Brinkley on CBS?

A piece of wothless trivia ..... Brinkley was from my home town.

[Miss Marple]

Nope, NBC. The reason I am positive about this is that he substituted on the Today Show later, kind of a tryout, and he was TERRIBLE. It was painful to watch, he was SO BAD.

Then he refused to go to Yugolavia because it was too dangerous, got in a big fight with NBC management, and wsa let go.

[Utah Girl]

That's the same guy? He did not age well at all.

[Miss Marple]

Here is his biography from the History Channel web site:

Emmy Award-Winning broadcast journalist Arthur Kent is the host of History's Mysteries, Monday through Thursday at 8pm ET on The History Channel®.

Arthur Kent, whose live satellite broadcasts for NBC News during the 1991 Persian Gulf War brought home the victories and tragedies of war, has covered conflicts from Afghanistan to Bosnia. Mr. Kent won two 1989 Emmy Awards for his coverage of Tianamen Square in China and the anti-Ceaucescu uprising in Bucharest. Following his tenure at NBC News, he was host for two seasons of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's respected documentary series, Man Alive.

Arthur Kent's career in television, radio, and print journalism has ranged from solo filming expeditions in zones of conflict, such as Afghanistan and Bosnia, to coverage of major breaking news stories around the world as a member of large network news teams. A graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada with a combined first-class honors degree in journalism and history, Kent began his television career in 1973 at CJOH-TV, Ottawa's CTV network affiliate. In 1976, he joined the news service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, eventually moving to his home province of Alberta as a correspondent for The National, the CBC's principal evening newscast.

In the early 1980's, Kent traveled and produced news and current affairs specials from Asia and Europe as an independent correspondent and cameraman. In 1986, he began filing special reports jointly to the CBC, America's NBC News and the Observer newspaper of London. This arrangement continued through the watershed international news years of 1988 and 1989, when Kent photographed and reported his way from Afghanistan and Pakistan to the former Soviet Union and China. In August 1989, as communism began to crumble across Eastern Europe, Kent joined NBC News as the network's Rome correspondent.

The 1991 Persian Gulf War vaulted Kent into instantaneous reporting via satellite -and into the debate over the restriction of free news coverage. Criticism of the various forms of official censorship is one of the themes of his book, Risk and Redemption: Surviving the Network News Wars, which was published by Penguin Books Canada in September 1996 and June 1997 in the United States by Interstellar. The book features the story of Kent's successful legal battle with the management and the ownership of NBC over the tabloidization of news programming and explores the issue raised by the case. Risk and Redemption and its authors were chosen to participate in the National Press Club's annual authors' night and the book has been generously reviewed by leading American commentators such as David Halberstam, Walter Cronkite, and Norman Corwin.

[kayak]

Well, I just found out we've had another ATRW member change a screen name ...... I hope I'm not letting any cats out of the bag.

(See #275)