Peter Arnett Now Reporting For Arab Channel Al-Arabiya

AP / NBC Philadelphia ^ | 8:30 a.m. CST April 5, 2003

[watchin]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- 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 Arabic.

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.

[watchin]

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

At least as unbiased as Al-Jezeera.

[Arkinsaw]

The best thing is that its doubtful that Arnett will ever report for a US outlet again. At least for a pleasant number of years.

[watchin]

Please remove this, as it is a very late duplicate.

I searched for "arnett", but this article did not appear. After posting it, I double-checked and searched for "arnett arab" and found the other threads.

Perhaps you could explain to me why the first search didn't contain the duplicates?

[Bosco]

He'll be rehabilitated - kinda like how Marv Albert was.

[dc-zoo]

That's where the a-hole belongs since Iraq TV will soon be out of its business of misinformation.

[ChadGore]

Baathist

[Redbob]

"The best thing is that its doubtful that Arnett will ever report for a US outlet again. At least for a pleasant number of years."

Like three or four hundred?
Hehehehe...

[Az Joe]

Het Arnett! Stay out of Arizona mo fo!!

[lilylangtree]

Arnett's true color (yellow) is visible for everyone to see.

[Inspectorette]

I thought the clymer was reporting for a Brit tabloid. Did they fire his a** too?

[Inspectorette]

I thought the clymer was reporting for a Brit tabloid. Did they fire his a** too?

[lowbridge]

[McGruff]

Nice work.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

I'm finding that too when I search for articles by title the things I'm looking for don't come up.

Then I post it and someone links it to another thread!

Sigh.

I *always* search before I post and this has been happening more and more.