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Thursday, Feb. 12, 2004 Arnot: NBC Dumped Me for Finding Positive News in Iraq NBC has refused to renew the contract of Iraq correspondent Dr. Bob Arnot. He says the reason is that he dares to find progress. "In a 1,300-word e-mail to NBC News president Neal Shapiro, written in December 2003 and obtained by NYTV, Dr. Arnot called NBC News' coverage of Iraq biased. He argued that keeping him in Iraq and on NBC could go far in rectifying that," the New York Observer's Joe Hagan reported today. "Dr. Arnot included excerpts from an e-mail from Jim Keelor, president...

Bob Arnot, the medical doctor turned foreign correspondent for MSNBC and NBC News—the onetime chief medical correspondent "Dr. Bob" on NBC News, who has been filing prickly, Geraldo-like dispatches from Iraq—has been conspicuously absent from TV lately. Dr. Arnot’s contract was up at NBC in December 2003 and, according to the network, won’t be renewed in the foreseeable future. Dr. Arnot did not leave willingly. Although personal, his departure has also exposed the divides over TV coverage of the war in Iraq. In a 1,300-word e-mail to NBC News president Neal Shapiro, written in December 2003 and obtained by NYTV,...

Talker's Magazine's Mona Lipschitz reports in the 2003 December issue: NPR. CUT