Posted on 04/26/2004 8:02:21 PM PDT by kristinn
Nominations are requested for Free Republic's Peter Arnett Awards 'honoring' those reporters, news organizations and public figures whose reporting and statements have given aid and comfort to the enemy and undermined morale in the war on terrorism like Mr. Arnett did last year with his infamous interview in Baghdad saying the Americans were losing the war against Saddam.
Nominations will be accepted until 6 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 28. Voting will commence later that evening with the cutoff time to be announced when the voting thread is posted.
Please provide a source link or documentation where possible.
A couple nominees to get things started:
The Washington Post for its cheerleading of the so-called antiwar movement. Nearly every prominent antiwar leader has been sympathetically profiled in the Style section and nearly every antiwar protest, no matter how small, gets reported on in glowing terms. The Post has never reported in depth about the background, funding and true agendas of the major antiwar groups.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) for his 'Iraq is Bush's Vietnam' speech. Kennedy's speech was used as a rallying cry by Muqtada Al Sadr who threatened that "Iraq will be another Vietnam for America."
The winners will be announced at the sixth annual freep of liberal bias in the media held outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner by the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com on Saturday, May 1.
Chris Mathews for masquerading as an "objective" journalist.
“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”
________________ -- Charles Pierce in a January 5, 2003 Boston Globe Magazine article.
I'll add Jesse Jackson for his speech a few weeks back.
The BBC for coverage of the war that was so biased their own troops boycotted it.
CFC__VRWC said: How about a trifecta of NBC propagandists? . . .
I nominate NBC itself for the most prominent dishonor award.
How about also an honorable award for Dr. Bob Arnott? Maybe a "reality check" award because Arnott refused to become overly pessimistic?
Giving the award to NBC itself is perfect because NBC was forced, by public outrage, to fire Peter Arnett a year ago when it became too clear that Arnett was following the Saddam propaganda line.
Then, near the end of 2003, NBC fired Dr. Bob Arnott because he was countering the overly pessimistic Iraqi reporting, per below from some other web sites.
"The Press and Iraq" (Posted September 26, 2003) from Brian J. Dunn's Dignified Rant blog
Given the complaints in the blogosphere about overly negative press coverage on Iraq, an exchange on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Oberman" (or whatever his names is—I rarely watch it and only did because a story on Alanis Morissette was mentioned—I like her, live with it) was amusing and heartening.
Keith introduced the story on the bombing of the NBC headquarters in Baghdad, asserting it is one more in a long line of bad things happening in Iraq. But when he went to Bob Arnott in the field, Arnott directly contradicted Keith by noting all the good things that are happening and that the bombing actually masked this news!
It was a pleasure to hear. I don't expect or want feel-good news since we need information to determine how we are doing. But I think maybe the overly negative tone may subside in favor of some balance. Maybe I'm too hopeful but this exchange was a pleasure to behold. Kudos to Arnott.
NBC Shuts Down Iraq Dr. Bob Arnott
from the National DebateThe New York Observer [apparently this was quoted from a longer NYO article]
Bob Arnot, the medical doctor turned foreign correspondent for MSNBC and NBC News—the onetime chief medical correspondent "Dr. Bob" on NBC News, who has been filing prickly, Geraldo-like dispatches from Iraq—has been conspicuously absent from TV lately. Dr. Arnot’s contract was up at NBC in December 2003 and, according to the network, won’t be renewed in the foreseeable future. Dr. Arnot did not leave willingly.
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