PETER ARNETT NOW REPORTING FOR ARAB CHANNEL AL-ARIBIYAH

AP Breaking News ^ | 05 April 2003

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Peter Arnett, fired by NBC earlier this week for giving an interview to state-run Iraqi television, is reporting for pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya, the station said Saturday. "He (Arnett) is an able reporter who has covered wars before and who knows Iraq well," the Dubai-based station's editor-in-chief Salah Nejm told The Associated Press. "I think he is unbiased and has a lot of experience," Nejm said.

Arnett started reporting for Al-Arabiya on Friday, becoming its third correspondent in Baghdad. His reports are voiced over in English. NBC fired him for giving an unauthorized interview to Iraqi TV, during which he said the U.S.-led war effort had initially failed because of Iraq's resistance. NBC said the company was angered because Arnett gave the interview without permission and presented opinion as fact. Arnett, a New Zealander, has since apologized for his "misjudgment" but described himself as a "casualty of the information war."

He won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Vietnam for The Associated Press and covered the 1991 Gulf War for CNN, a network he also left under a cloud. Arnett was the on-air reporter for a retracted 1998 CNN report that accused U.S. forces of using sarin nerve gas in Laos in 1970. He was reprimanded and later left the network. Since being fired by NBC, Arnett has been hired by a private Belgian TV network, a state-run Greek television channel and The Daily Mirror of London, a tabloid vehemently opposed to the war. Al-Arabiya is owned by an Arab investment group that includes Saudi, Lebanese and Kuwaiti investors.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Well, first of all it gives us a list of enemies to watch out for. This war (against Islam) has only just begun. What a mess.

[bert]

Peter was recently seen in the hotel lobby with a sign saying"Will Report for Hotel Room"

[Pharmboy]

Well, at least he is finally in the right place. After this, the only place left for him is back to CNN.

[Pete'sWife]

Look in the dictionary for the word "Prostitute" and you'll see Arnett's picture.

[Pharlap]

Peter Arnett continuing, more and more, in the tradition of Tokyo Rose and England's Lord Haw Haw. After the war, he should be given the same treatment.

[Cicero]

Maybe after the war is over he can get a job like Al Gore, teaching a course at Columbia or Berkeley.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Arnett has been hired by ....The Daily Mirror of London - No surprise there!

[ditto h]

His children must be very proud.

[Rocko]

"I think he is unbiased and has a lot of experience," Nejm said.

This is half right -- he has a lot of experience being biased.

[ZinGirl]

"I think he is unbiased and has a lot of experience," Nejm said.

"Of course, I also believe Islam is a religion of peace.....I might even believe everything that Iraqi Information Minister believes.....and I have to go now because I'm having lunch with Elvis"

[Southern Federalist]

Why did the old Steve Goodman song "Down in the Banana Republics" jump into my mind when I read this? Why do I see Arnett ten years from now swilling bootleg liquour from a Perrier bottle in some Sudanese dive, talking about the days when he was a big man in journalism?

Down in the Islamic republics
Things aren't as bright as they seem.
None of the natives are buying
Any second-hand Left-wing dreams...

[Always Right]

"unbias" in media terms = anti-American

[AAABEST]

Peter Arnett, fired by NBC earlier this week for giving an interview to state-run Iraqi television, is reporting for pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya

When I saw that interview he gave the other day I was under the impression that he had actually become an Iraqi, as opposed to just becomming a reporter for the Arab press.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I wish cruise missiles weren't soooo expensive. We could send Peta Arenot one. I guess we'll just let him drown in his own drivel.

[Mr. Mojo]

If this trend continues, he'll be taking over the job of Iraq's (dis)information minister before the week is up.

[A University Student]

and presented opinion as fact.

Then why is NBC even staffed if that's what you have to do to get fired?

[WVNan]

I know you were joking, but that's most likely exactly what will happen. Think Angela Davis.

[TheRightGuy]

Steve Goodman song "Down in the Banana Republics"

I know Jimmy Buffet recorded it, I had no idea Steve Goodman wrote it. I have most of Goodman's recordings that have survived to the CD age.

[SandRat]

in the tradition of Tokyo Rose and England's Lord Haw Haw. After the war, he should be given the same treatment.

Not even!

Tokyo Rose got pardoned on this side by some idiot (doesn't matter if it was a DEM, a REPUB, whatever) President bowing to Liberal Law-beasts, and the ACLU (that's Anachists, Communists, Liberals, and UNSERMENSH).

It would be best if Propaganda Pete got the same treatment that Eichmann got, but I'd settle for what Hess got at Spandau Prision.