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As The Toronto Star's media columnist Antonia Zerbisias sees it, famed Pulitzer-prize winning war correspondent Peter Arnett was fired for speaking "the ugly truth." She's not alone. Globe and Mail columnist William Houston argued that NBC should not have caved into the political firestorm sparked by Arnett's ill-fated -- and pretty bloody stupid -- impromptu weekend interview on Iraqi television. Even Toronto Sun editor Lorrie Goldstein argued that Arnett was not exactly wise to talk to Iraqi TV, but he shouldn't have been fired. Arnett himself admits he was wrong to grant an interview with state-controlled Iraqi TV -- there...

ON SUNDAY, Peter Arnett went on Iraqi TV said this: "Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. Now America is reappraising the battlefield, delaying the war maybe a week and rewriting the war plan."

In 1995, then-CNN star Peter Arnett told The American Spectator's John Corry that "Rush Limbaugh is the king. He is also a cretinous liar, with off-the-wall opinions. And he has the audacity to call himself a journalist." Arnett was half-right: Rush is the king of all media. But the rest of that diatribe doesn't describe Rush. It fits Arnett -- to a T.You won't hear that from the princes of our press corps, now tiptoeing silently away from Arnett in embarrassment. Arnett was deified by the media establishment even after (or was it because?) he trashed America from Baghdad in...

Arnett Back on the Air From Baghdad By RAF CASERT .c The Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Peter Arnett is back on the air from Baghdad. Only days after he was fired by the U.S. network NBC, Arnett found an unlikely new audience Thursday - the Dutch-speaking population from northern Belgium. ``Thanks Peter Arnett, we are proud to have you on our team,'' said VTM news anchor Dany Verstraeten after Arnett finished his first report from the Iraqi capital. The private network announced it will have daily reports from one of the world's most famous reporters until the end...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. The Fox News Channel and MSNBC have been fighting it out for the hearts and minds of American television viewers. Now the battlefield has spilled over from news coverage to advertising and promotions. On Sunday, Fox News covered the plight of Peter Arnett, the war correspondent for MSNBC, NBC News and National Geographic Explorer. In an interview on Iraqi-controlled television, he said, among other things, that the American war plan had failed. On Tuesday, MSNBC reported on the plight of the Fox correspondent Geraldo Rivera, who ran afoul of military commanders...

Oops. TV Guide: “Arnett is the Comeback Kid in Iraq”     Talk about bad timing. The headline over a story in the new TV Guide arriving in homes this week: “At 68, Arnett is the Comeback Kid in Iraq.” NBC severed its relationship with Arnett on Monday after he went on enemy TV to praise the enemy's resistance and boast how his “reporting” was aiding the efforts of domestic dissenters to undermine U.S. policy.     For a full rundown of what Arnett said on Iraqi TV and his record of spreading enemy propaganda, see Monday's CyberAlert Extra:http://www2.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030331_extra.asp     For how Arnett charged that...

WORD.... CRONKITE, RATHER, JENNINGS, BROKAW AND OTHER MEDIA GEEZERS AND SUFFERERS OF MEDIA SENILE DEMENTIA: WORLD POWER IS NOW AND ON BALANCE A FUNCTION OF MODERN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND THAT IS WHY THE ARAB AND ARAB LEANING EUROPEANS WILL LOOSE. Toogood Reports [Wednesday, April 2, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST] URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ The real significance of the firing of Peter Arnett over his obviously false statements made to the world over Iraqi TV, is that it might lead some to reexamine not only their current pro-Saddam Hussein, anti-war views, but might even lead to a reexamination of their Vietnam era...

The real significance of the firing of Peter Arnett over his obviously false statements made to the world over Iraqi TV, is that it might lead some to reexamine not only their current pro-Saddam Hussein, anti-war views, but might even lead to a reexamination of their Vietnam era anti-war politically correct thinking developed in their youth by listening to Peter Arnett. During World War II, the war of my teen-age years, Ernie Pyle wrote articles and drew cartoons depicting the war through the eyes of the soldiers at the front. The Ernie Pyle Foundation reflects the feelings of those who...

Apples and Arnetts By Greg Buete Remember Afghanistan? Just one week after the U.S. began fighting the Taliban New York Times reporter R.W. Johnny Apple compared the situation to Vietnam, just as he did during the 1991 Gulf War, and warned of a quagmire to come. The blind leading the blind, the majority of the media followed. But history is not kind to the media's Vietnam in Afghanistan premonition - within weeks the Taliban had fallen and "brutal Afghan winter" became a punch line. As noted in Bill Sammon's book Fighting Back, by the end of October 2001 the media...

Propaganda Pete03/31/2003 Poetic justice played out today when foreign correspondent Peter Arnett, recently of NBC and National Geographic, managed to hang himself with his own noose - metaphorically speaking. Working from Baghdad, on Sunday, 03/30/03, he gave an interview to Iraqi TV that amounted to a heaping helping of propaganda. Here are some snippets. Judge for yourself: "The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces." The above statement is especially egregious because it could only serve to...

<p>April 2, 2003 -- IS Peter Arnett guilty of treason?</p> <p>This is a perfectly serious question.</p> <p>Arnett, who was fired by NBC and National Geographic on Monday, is a citizen of the United States. The United States is in a state of war with Iraq - an official war, authorized by the Congress of the United States. That makes Iraq an official enemy of the United States.</p>

Fox News Channel has wasted no time in dancing on Peter Arnett's TV grave. Roger Ailes' merry pranksters launched a promo Wednesday that trashes the just-fired Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman as well as FNC rival MSNBC, which ran his dispatches from Baghdad. An image on the screen shows Arnett reporting for MSNBC as a man's voice says: "He spoke out against America's armed forces. He said America's war against terrorism had failed. He even vilified America's leadership. And he worked for MSNBC. "Ask yourself - is this America's News Channel? We report, you decide. Fox News Channel. Real journalism, fair...

WASHINGTON - Correspondent Peter Arnett should be "tried as a traitor" for remarks he made in an interview with Iraqi state television, Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., said Tuesday. Arnett, a New Zealand native and naturalized U.S. citizen, said in the Sunday interview that Washington's "first war plan has just failed because of Iraqi resistance. ... Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces." NBC and its related network, for which the longtime war reporter had been covering the conflict from Baghdad, dismissed Arnett despite his apologies Monday. Later the same day, London's anti-war Daily Mirror hired...

While the anti-Bush propaganda machines of Dan Rather & Co., ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the New York Times, Time and Newsweek, to name a few, continue pumping out their blatantly leftist disinformation about the U.S.’s unprecedented successes in Operation Iraqi Freedom, quasi-journalist Peter Arnett’s latest anti-U.S. propagandizing has ultimately cost him his job – again. Reminiscent of Arnett’s 1998 CNN debacle over his fabricated story about U.S. army commandos allegedly using sarin nerve gas in a top-secret operation called “Tailwind” during the Vietnam War, NBC, MSNBC and National Geographic magazine recently fired the Pulitzer-Prize winning “reporter” over his...

The Viet Cong Admiration Society retreats Historian Paul Johnson refers to the American left's behavior during the Vietnam War as "America's suicide attempt." The firing of NBC reporter Peter Arnett this week proves the nation has fully recovered. Now we don't have to wait 20 years for a history book to tell us that Walter Cronkite lied about the Viet Cong's Tet offensive being a smashing success. The sedition lobby can't compete with the truth available in the new media. As American servicemen swept through Iraq, securing oil fields, rescuing POWs, risking their own lives to protect Iraqi civilians, Peter...

Peter Arnett, Cretinous Liar by L. Brent Bozell IIIApril 2, 2003 In 1995, then-CNN star Peter Arnett told The American Spectator’s John Corry that "Rush Limbaugh is the king. He is also a cretinous liar, with off-the-wall opinions. And he has the audacity to call himself a journalist."Arnett was half-right: Rush is the king of all media. But the rest of that diatribe doesn’t describe Rush. It fits Arnett -- to a T.You won’t hear that from the princes of our press corps, now tiptoeing silently away from Arnett in embarrassment. Arnett was deified by the media establishment even...

About five years ago I crossed paths, sort of, with famed journalist Peter Arnett. A few friends and I stopped to have an after-dinner drink at an almost-empty bar on Manhattan's East Side. He was alone and clearly wanted to be noticed. We ignored him. Today Arnett is getting the attention he deserves--just not the kind he wanted. That Peter Arnett would give a kissy-kissy interview with Iraq Television is no big surprise to most conservatives. Neither is the specific fact that he would describe the war plan as a "failure" to the enemy of the US. Arnett, like the...

<p>The appalling Peter Arnett has done a huge disservice, not just to his adopted country, but also to the profession to which he used to belong. It would be nice if Mr. Arnett's recent appearance on Iraqi television disparaging the U.S. performance in the war and claiming credit for stirring up anti-war demonstrations in the United States could simply be dismissed as the ramblings of a misguided egomaniac, an irritating minor splotch on the great canvas of battle. But the damage he did with his bizarre statements on Iraqi television over the weekend is great.</p>

All The News That Fits...Their Agenda By William A. Mayer In what reads like a stupid April Fools joke, Bernard Weinraub and Thom Shanker are continuing Howell Raines’ and his New York Times’ war on the Bush administration and in particular on Operation Iraqi Freedom [the entire Time’ lead page is veritably reeking with negativity and sophomoric second guessing] with an article entitled Rumsfield’s Plan For War Criticized On Battlefield. The piece creates a mood of despair, an impression that battlefield leaders are in near rebellion against the Pentagon and that the Joint Chiefs are fractured along intricate lines...

Since Peter Arnett has decided to be the mouthpiece for Iraq, now's the time to tell him he can stay there and don't bother to come back to the U.S.