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Peter Arnett Bravo to NBC for sacking Peter Arnett. One footnote to this controversy: In his paean to Iraq’s “resistance” and “determination,” Arnett made a claim that you often hear even from uncompromised reporters – that the U.S. forces had been forced to change their plans. I have no idea whether this claim is true. Personally I doubt it. But even if it were true – so what? There are doomsters and defeatists out there who keep insisting that the U.S. and its allies can only claim victory if they meet an ever-lengthening list of conditions: “The allies win ONLY...

THE NBC CORRESPONDENTApril 1, 2003 Arnett Dismissed After Remarks on Iraqi TVBy JIM RUTENBERG eter Arnett, the longtime foreign correspondent who on Sunday criticized the allied war plan on Iraqi television, was dropped by NBC News yesterday in a move that was played out vividly on live television. Associated PressPeter Arnett giving the interview on Iraqi television that provoked NBC executives to let him go and announce it on the "Today" show. NBC executives, who had earlier defended his appearance on Iraqi state television, said Mr. Arnett, 68, had compromised his objectivity when he told an Iraqi interviewer that the...

Arnett pays a stiff price for his Baghdad boo-booTuesday, April 1, 2003By MELANIE McFARLANDSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER TELEVISION CRITICHaving spent half of last week in the throes of fever and flu-induced headaches, returning to physical health and unhealthy levels of cable news absorption felt downright refreshing.Then came Monday's news about NBC and National Geographic Explorer firing Peter Arnett after backing him on Sunday, and my head started throbbing again.Arnett, who made his TV career covering the Gulf War for CNN, has had his share of journalistic boo-boos. In 1998, CNN fired him after he alleged in a documentary that U.S. commandos used...

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Before firing Peter Arnett - the Tokyo Rose of our time - NBC issued a ludicrous statement defending Arnett's interview on Iraqi TV as a "professional courtesy." When the condemnations started rolling in, NBC saw the handwriting on the ratings wall and quickly cut him loose. NBC News President Neal Shapiro said, "It was wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview to state-controlled Iraqi TV - especially at a time of war - and it was wrong for him to discuss his personal observations and opinions in that interview." Arnett later apologized on the "Today" show, but the damage...

An alternate concert aimed at protesting THE DIXIE CHICKS is being planned. The Dixie Chicks are scheduled to open the American leg of their current tour in Greenville, South Carolina on May 1st. Nationally syndicated talk show host MIKE GALLAGHER says country music fans angry over comments by NATALIE MAINES can send a message by attending an alternate concert in the same city on the same night. "The Greenville News" says Mr. Gallagher is talking with CHARLIE DANIELS, TRAVIS TRITT, TOBY KEITH and DARRYL WORLEY about doing the anti-Chicks performance.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two of U.S. television's most controversial war correspondents found themselves in hot water on Monday over their reporting in Iraq, as NBC fired Peter Arnett and the Pentagon pressed Fox News Channel to pull out Geraldo Rivera. Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize winner during the Vietnam War who gained fame in 1991 as CNN's man in Baghdad, found himself out of work and under a cloud after he appeared on Iraqi TV and said the U.S. war plan against Saddam Hussein had failed. But the veteran newsman did not remain jobless for long. Britain's Daily Mirror said...

THIS WAR IS NOT WORKING Apr 1 2003 By Peter Arnett I am still in shock and awe at being fired. There is enormous sensitivity within the US government to reports coming out from Baghdad. They don't want credible news organisations reporting from here because it presents them with enormous problems. I reported on the original bombing for NBC and we were half a mile away from those massive explosions. Now I am really shocked that I am no longer reporting this story for the US and awed by the fact that it actually happened. That overnight my successful NBC...

LONDON - A British tabloid newspaper said Tuesday it had hired veteran reporter Peter Arnett, who was fired by American TV network NBC after he said the U.S.-led war effort in Iraq (news - web sites) had failed. "Fired by America for telling the truth," said the Daily Mirror in a front page headline, adding it had hired the "legendary war reporter" to carry on telling the truth. "I am still in shock and awe at being fired," Arnett wrote for the newspaper, which is vehemently opposed to the war. "I report the truth of what is happening here in...

HOME OF THE FREE: ARNETT JOINS MIRRORTHE reporter sacked by American TV for telling the truth about the war is joining the Daily Mirror.Veteran newsman Peter Arnett was axed by NBC yesterday accused of being a Saddam stooge. He told state-run Iraqi TV the conflict was not going to plan because of fierce resistance and said his Baghdad reports "help those who oppose war".He joins the Mirror on the day it was revealed that 8,700 bombs have rained down on Iraq in 12 days, including 3,000 missiles over the weekend.After his sacking, Pulitzer Prize winner Arnett said: "I report...

'I am still in shock and awe at being fired,' writes Peter Arnett in his first piece for the DAILY MIRROR, a day after being fired by NBC and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. 'I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it...'

(2003-03-31) -- Iraq's vice president, Taha Yassin Ramadan, said 'suicide broadcasters' Peter Arnett and Geraldo Rivera are part of a "coordinated effort to thwart invaders who can't be defeated by conventional warfare." He also raised the specter of more suicide broadcasters on U.S. or British soil. Meanwhile, Saddam Hussein's regime presented Mr. Arnett and Mr. Rivera 'postfamous' medals and large financial contributions. Calling the tactic a "routine military policy," Mr. Ramadan threatened more such attacks on Americans and Britons -- even on their own soil. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer dismissed the Iraqi threats saying that American news networks "have...

Per Britt Hume.

Last night Peter Arnett appeared on Iraqi television to give aid and comfort to Saddam's sadistic regime. No mystery surrounds Arnett's willingness to betray whatever journalistic principles he may have once possessed by openly collaborating with the Arab equivalent of Adolf Hitler. Even a very brief summary of his journalistic career will reveal that what drives this Quisling is a deep hatred of America. It will probably surprise many of you to learn that Arnett is actually New Zealand-born. Now for some reason an inordinate number of New Zealand and Australian reporters carry around a lot of anti-American baggage and...

Peter Arnett....................................................... Benedict Arnold

Freepers, click on the link above, or HERE to ask President Bush to revoke the passport of Peter Arnett. Arnett is the traitor who went on Iraqi TV to denounced the US and President Bush.

Well, surprise, surprise, surprise ... Peter Arnett is broadcasting his special brand of ego-driven, anti-American rhetoric from Baghdad once again, having been rehabilitated from his ashes and sackcloth by the "green"-driven National Geographic, and now seconded to the National Broadcasting Corporation. For those not familiar with the symbol most closely describing the real-politik of the "greens," beyond a doubt, it would have to be the watermelon. A thin patina of green coats the exterior with a slightly bitter, hard, white rind supporting – while inside, it is red solidly to the core. Yes, I know: Why don't I tell you...