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PETER ARNETT NOW REPORTING FOR ARAB CHANNEL AL-ARIBIYAH
AP Breaking News ^
| 05 April 2003
Posted on 04/05/2003 6:30:29 AM PST by 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.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabstation; arnett; enemypropaganda; peterarnett; reportingfor; traitors; treason; warcorrespondents
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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.
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Peter was recently seen in the hotel lobby with a sign saying"Will Report for Hotel Room"
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:31:59 AM PST
by
bert
(Don't Panic !)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Well, at least he is finally in the right place. After this, the only place left for him is back to CNN.
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:32:11 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie 'cause they have to)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Look in the dictionary for the word "Prostitute" and you'll see Arnett's picture.
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:37:21 AM PST
by
Pete'sWife
(Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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.
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:37:53 AM PST
by
Pharlap
To: Pharmboy
Maybe after the war is over he can get a job like Al Gore, teaching a course at Columbia or Berkeley.
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:39:44 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Arnett has been hired by ....The Daily Mirror of London - No surprise there!
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
His children must be very proud.
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:40:18 AM PST
by
ditto h
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
"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.
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:41:58 AM PST
by
Rocko
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
"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"
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:42:28 AM PST
by
ZinGirl
(I support our president and our military!..as do my family...my neighbors...my friends...)
Comment #11 Removed by Moderator
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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...
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
"unbias" in media terms = anti-American
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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.
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:45:48 AM PST
by
AAABEST
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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.
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:47:23 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Caring Rational Alert Professional)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
If this trend continues, he'll be taking over the job of Iraq's (dis)information minister before the week is up.
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:47:57 AM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
and presented opinion as fact. Then why is NBC even staffed if that's what you have to do to get fired?
To: Cicero
I know you were joking, but that's most likely exactly what will happen. Think Angela Davis.
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:51:33 AM PST
by
WVNan
To: Southern Federalist
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.
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posted on
04/05/2003 6:55:49 AM PST
by
TheRightGuy
(I like PEACE ...and there's nothing more peaceful than a dead terrorist!)
To: Pharlap
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.
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posted on
04/05/2003 7:00:14 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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