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Timeout posted: "NBC actually had a reporter who did just the kind of "human interest" stories Laura alluded to. He spoke fluent Arabic and, as a doctor, he occasionally interacted with Iraqis and provided them with medical care/advice. He was terrific. Who is he? Dr. Bob Arnot. And what happened to him? As soon as he started sending in positive on-the-street reports from Baghdad, NBC fired him. I've long wondered why Fox or some other network didn't pick him up.
"I looked forward to his reports, mainly because he spoke Arabic so well and could really tell us what was being said. But he was apparently "off the reservation" as far as NBC was concerned. Engle's end-of-the-world reporting is what they wanted."
Great point!! Dr. Arnot came back with terrific stories about what attitudes among Iraqis were, about the wonderful services our troops were doing on behalf of the lives and liberties of the citizens of Iraq; and what did NBC do? It replaced his coverage with more gloom-and-doom-anti-Bush reporting.

So much for NBC's "objective" information gathering on behalf of the "American people" they love to cite as being against the President's efforts in Iraq!