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Daily Mirror newspaper hires fired journalist Peter Arnett (He's not gone yet)
Yahoo News ^ | 3-31-2003 | Kevin Sharp

Posted on 03/31/2003 5:50:59 PM PST by utvolsfan13

LONDON - A British tabloid newspaper said Tuesday it had hired veteran reporter Peter Arnett, who was fired by American TV network NBC after he said the U.S.-led war effort in Iraq (news - web sites) had failed.

"Fired by America for telling the truth," said the Daily Mirror in a front page headline, adding it had hired the "legendary war reporter" to carry on telling the truth.

"I am still in shock and awe at being fired," Arnett wrote for the newspaper, which is vehemently opposed to the war. "I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it."

NBC fired Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Vietnam for The Associated Press, on March 31, angered that he had given an unauthorized interview with state-run Iraqi TV saying the American-led war effort initially failed because of Iraq's resistance.

The network said it got thousands of e-mails and phone calls protesting his remarks.


TOPICS: Announcements; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aidandcomfort; antiamerican; arnett; axissally; boycott; boycottdailymirror; idiot; lordhawhaw; peterarnett; propaganda; prosaddam; tokiorose; traitor; treason; unamerican; williamjoyce
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1 posted on 03/31/2003 5:50:59 PM PST by utvolsfan13
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To: utvolsfan13
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2 posted on 03/31/2003 5:52:44 PM PST by Joe Bonforte
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To: Joe Bonforte
Great Cartoon!!! Almost captures the true horror of his comb over!
3 posted on 03/31/2003 5:56:52 PM PST by YaYa123
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To: utvolsfan13
I guess that the Daily Mirror wants to cut back on circulation as well.
4 posted on 03/31/2003 5:57:34 PM PST by weegee (McCarthy was right, Fight the Red Menace)
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To: utvolsfan13
I heard Brit Hume report this a couple of hours ago just before his show went off . . .

Maybe Arnett can moonlight with Al-Jazeera too ! . . .
5 posted on 03/31/2003 5:59:22 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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To: utvolsfan13
"I am still in shock and awe at being fired".

This guy is just too cute and smart for his own good,like alot of libs we know

6 posted on 03/31/2003 6:01:43 PM PST by Helms ("The Amoral Sartre/Heidegger French and Germans Believe W. Civilization is Caput")
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To: MeeknMing
HOME OF THE FREE: ARNETT JOINS MIRROR

Apr 1 2003

 

THE reporter sacked by American TV for telling the truth about the war is joining the Daily Mirror.

Veteran newsman Peter Arnett was axed by NBC yesterday accused of being a Saddam stooge. He told state-run Iraqi TV the conflict was not going to plan because of fierce resistance and said his Baghdad reports “help those who oppose war”.

He joins the Mirror on the day it was revealed that 8,700 bombs have rained down on Iraq in 12 days, including 3,000 missiles over the weekend.

After his sacking, Pulitzer Prize winner Arnett said: “I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologise for it. I have always admired your newspaper and am proud to be working

for it.”

The New Zealand-born journalist was vilified across the US for an interview in which he said: “The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, thewar planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. In my TV commentaries I’d tell the Americans about the Iraqi forces and their willingness to fight.

“President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people. But if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.”

Arnett, 68, added that there was growing opposition about the conduct of the war.’

He said: “Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the US. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy.”

On Sunday, NBC praised the reporter for risking his life to deliver news from Baghdad.

The station said of the Iraqi TV interview: “He answered their questions out of professional courtesy. He saw it as purely analysis.”

But the furious White House said Arnett spoke from “a point of complete ignorance”.

They day after backing him, NBC cut him loose.

Yesterday Arnett said on NBC: “I want to apologise to the American people. It was clearly a misjudgment talking to Iraqi TV.

“I’m not anti-war. I said what we all know about this war. But I’ve created a firestorm and for that I’m sorry.”

Asked about his future, he joked: “There’s a small island in the South Pacific I’ll try to swim to. I’ll leave.”

Arnett was one of the few TV journalists in Baghdad. He said: “The Iraqis let me stay because they see me as a fellow warrior. They know I might not agree with them. But I’ve got their respect.”

The reporter, the first Western journalist to interview Osama bin Laden and the last to interview Saddam Hussein, was accused of peddling pro-Iraqi propaganda while covering the 1991 Gulf War.

But he gained much of his prominence for reporting the last conflict with Iraq for CNN.

His Pulitzer Prize came for reporting in Vietnam in 1966 for the Associated Press.


7 posted on 03/31/2003 6:02:27 PM PST by Howlin
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To: YaYa123
That, and the fact that Saddam has his hand up Arnett's A$$...
8 posted on 03/31/2003 6:03:08 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Beware of Disinformation and propaganda)
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To: utvolsfan13; Alamo-Girl; onyx; SpookBrat; Republican Wildcat; Howlin; Fred Mertz; dixiechick2000; ..
Daily Mirror newspaper hires fired journalist Peter Arnett
(He's not gone yet)



Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

9 posted on 03/31/2003 6:04:30 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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To: utvolsfan13
He's a "legend" only in his own mind.

BTW, does anyone know if there's a Mrs. Benedict Arnett?

Or should I say a "Mrs. Benedictette Arnettette"?

(I think I have to tighten my upper plate).

Leni

10 posted on 03/31/2003 6:06:34 PM PST by MinuteGal (THIS JUST IN ! Astonishing fare reduction for FReeps Ahoy Cruise! Check it out, pronto!)
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To: utvolsfan13
Maybe they want him to do a follow up to the tailwind scamdle.
11 posted on 03/31/2003 6:07:01 PM PST by Lx (So it's now, Duct tape and cover?)
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To: Howlin
So is this an upgrade for the Daily Mirror? . . .
12 posted on 03/31/2003 6:10:55 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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To: MeeknMing
LOL.....I don't know. What's the general feeling about this paper?
13 posted on 03/31/2003 6:11:24 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Paul Atreides
heh heh ! I couldn't help but use your pic with my pingaroo . . .
14 posted on 03/31/2003 6:13:07 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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To: utvolsfan13
He's puffing up his resume to teach Journalism at Columbia University.
15 posted on 03/31/2003 6:15:35 PM PST by Rocko
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To: Howlin
I don't know, but when I see the term 'tabloid' used, I think of "Inquiring Minds Wanna Know" and the likes. :O) . . .
16 posted on 03/31/2003 6:17:11 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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To: Howlin
Tabloid, like the enquirer. A step down if ever there was one.
17 posted on 03/31/2003 6:19:31 PM PST by damncat
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To: utvolsfan13
Re the hiring of Arnett by the Daily Mirror: ONE MAN'S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN'S TREASURE, isn't that how the old saying goes???
18 posted on 03/31/2003 6:19:55 PM PST by CarmelValleyite
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To: MeeknMing
Why are the reports that the Military is kicking Geraldo out of Iraq? But the Military is not doing anything to Arnett. Something's wrong with this picture.

"Clearly, don't I look sincere?"

19 posted on 03/31/2003 6:20:21 PM PST by swheats
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To: swheats
Anybody else think he looks like Peter Boyle (the Creature) in Young Frankenstein?
20 posted on 03/31/2003 6:24:40 PM PST by Joe Bonforte
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