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April 10, 2003, 7:45 a.m.Hall of ShameMedia recriminations after VB Day.By NR Staff o many pundits, pols, and, yes, celebs, said so many wrong — and downright silly — things about the war in Iraq, prewar. We knew that back then, but now that Baghdad has effectively been liberated by the U.S.-lead Coalition, we provide a handy snapshot of what was said by some of those who should be looking down and making their apologies. Included here are Maureen Dowd, Chris Matthews, and Barry McCaffrey, the latter one of the retired-general second guessers Vice President Dick Cheney dubbed “embedded...

REJOICING MINORITY FREE AFTER 35 YEARS I WAS at the centre of a popular uprising in Baghdad yesterday.At 10am I drove through the city with two Iraqis I have known for many years. They are both Shi’ites.We headed to Saddam City in the east of Baghdad, where about million people live in slum areas. It is a hotbed of discontent and Islamic fundamentalism, and yesterday, as we arrived, the lid blew off.There were no military, no police and no militiamen around. We saw people beginning to walk from their houses, looking about. We saw one group go into the home of...

Through Japanese news sources toda, we have come up with an interesting, new development in the checkered and questionable media career of PETER ARNETT.Seems he has snagged himself another Baghdad news assignment, and has surfaced as an on-the-spot-reporter for Taipei, Taiwan-based cable TV station, "TVBS".URL (in Chinese): http://www.tvbs.com.tw/NEWS/NEWS_LIST.asp?no=kenneth20030407192855Peter Arnett (you'll see his face pop up on the right side of the screen together with Chinese text) is also passing on interesting military information. One wonders if this is of value, or whether he is playing the disinformation game for his Iraqi friends.At any rate, for what it is worth, in...

<p>Mr. Dooley was a character invented by Finley Peter Dunne, a satirist who lived from 1867 to 1936.</p> <p>In his 1902 book, "Observations by Mr. Dooley," Dunne wrote about the role of the newspaper, and in the process he unintentionally produced the creed of many American journalists, myself included.</p>

Arnett gets new job with Arab satellite TV channel 07.04.2003 Axed NBC correspondent, New Zealander Peter Arnett, is reporting for pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya. "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 said. "I think he is unbiased and has a lot of experience." Arnett started reporting for Al-Arabiya on Saturday, becoming its third correspondent in Baghdad. His reports are voiced over in Arabic. Last week American network NBC fired him for giving an unauthorised interview with state-run Iraqi TV, during which he said the United...

Peter Arnett: Under Fire By Chris Jones BBC News profiles unit Sacked by his employers for giving an interview to Iraqi television, the veteran war correspondent, Peter Arnett, has become another casualty of war. The Pulitzer Prize winner says he just wants to tell the truth. "I'm not anti-military. I don't want to give aid and comfort to the enemy," says Peter Arnett. He maintained his observation that America's original timetable for taking Baghdad had fallen by the wayside was simply what everyone knew, but said giving the interview had been "a stupid misjudgement". On America's most popular morning TV...

<p>April 6, 2003 -- BILL Kristol, who helps run the Washington political magazine Weekly Standard, said on Fox TV yesterday: "It surprised me that he hasn't joined The New York Times."</p> <p>The "he" Kristol was referring to is television reporter Peter Arnett.</p>

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...

Middle East - AP 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...

It says something about how sincere the news media is in its quest for relevance when one of the biggest stories of last week was that one of their own, Peter Arnett, got fired. A journalism professor once told me that reporters do not get rich, but they do have a lot of fun and when they die they get one heck of an obituary. As of this writing, Arnett still lives, but his termination generated more newsprint and broadcast time than any other American job loss that day. But maybe Arnett’s firing did merit the kind of exposure it...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - 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 English. NBC fired him for giving an unauthorized interview...

No matter how many times we hear of Americans doing or saying things that display their contempt and disdain for America it never ceases to fascinate and disgust true Americans. On March 28, 2003, the New Jersey newspaper the Trentonian reported on an interesting story entitled "Town Bans Yellow Ribbons."

Lots of folks, well some anyway, have a tendency to distrust their government. In democracies they elect people they like, or the "lesser of the evils," then spend the rest of the election term, being skeptical. People who are skeptical by nature, those who voted for the other candidate, speak the loudest, but even the ones who elected the government have a tendency to give credence to the idea that if they trust their government, they are somehow leaving a door open to disaster. For about three decades now, the trend has been increasing......

Arabiya TV hires sacked Arnett for Iraq coverage DUBAI, April 5 (Reuters) - Dubai-based Al Arabiya television said on Saturday it had signed up veteran U.S. reporter Peter Arnett to help cover the U.S.-led war in Iraq days after he was fired by U.S. network NBC. The news channel said Arnett, who won a Pulitzer prize for his Vietnam War coverage, joined its three-man team in the Iraqi capital Baghdad two days ago and that he had already appeared on live broadcasts. "Peter Arnett is a professional correspondent and is known for his coverage of the 1991 Gulf War. His...

Belgium's VTM television signs up Peter Arnett BRUSSELS, April 4 (Reuters) - Belgian commercial television station VTM said on Friday it had signed up veteran U.S. reporter Peter Arnett to provide daily coverage on the war in Iraq from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Pulitzer-prize winner Arnett was sacked by American TV network NBC after he told Iraqi television the U.S. war plan against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had failed. Britain's tabloid newspaper, the Daily Mirror, one of the most prominent opponents of Britain's involvement in the war, earlier this week said it had also hired the reporter. New Zealand-born Arnett,...

Sentiment about the war, the economy and the stock market has swung from euphoria to pessimism in only a few days. But Peter Arnett -- and maybe Geraldo, too -- signal a turn for the better. With both reporters rightly getting busted in Iraq, the media disinformation peak -- in economist terms -- has hit a market bottom. For almost two weeks now, many in the media have spread a message of defeat. The daily drumbeat on the front pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times, picked up by some of the major networks each night, would...

Peter Arnett is off the air. Again. From now on, Arnett will be covering Gulf War II for the left-wing British newspaper The Daily Mirror. NBC/MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer fired Arnett on March 31 after the “reporter” granted an interview to state-controlled Iraqi television. One major problem was that Arnett sounded more like an Iraqi mouthpiece than a journalist. “It is clear that within the United States there is growing challenge to President Bush about the conduct of the war and also opposition to the war,” Arnett said. It’s not clear how he could have known that, since he hasn’t been...

An outraged member of the Senate Armed Services Committee said, "I hesitate to even use the term journalist" when referring to Peter Arnett, the veteran war correspondent fired by NBC and National Geographic after he was interviewed on state-run Iraqi television. "'Traitor' is a better word to describe Mr. Arnett," Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) declared Tuesday (April 1) on the Senate floor. "Saddam Hussein couldn't have written his script any better," added the senator, recalling that Arnett - with a uniformed Iraqi anchor translating - told the Iraqi people this week that the first U.S. war plan has "failed because...

A U.S. senator is calling for the arrest of war correspondent Peter Arnett on a charge of treason in the wake of controversial comments the veteran reporter made to Iraqi television. Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. "I think Mr. Arnett should be met at the border and arrested should he come back to America," said Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. "We all firmly believe in the First Amendment which protects the freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly. However, no U.S. citizen should be allowed to provide aid, and comfort, through false information, to the enemy during wartime." Bunning is among the...

<p>ETER ARNETT should make journalists feel uncomfortable. His performance on Iraqi state television captured, in extreme example, a time-honored tradition: the art of ingratiating oneself to a source. This happens at all levels of journalism, from small-town police reporters to White House correspondents. To gain information from people who don't want to give it up, journalists tell the information-holders what they want to hear. Normally. this is a private transaction between journalist and source. The goal is to gain access and knowledge that will, hopefully, shed light on an issue or event. The public usually gets to see only what the journalist does with the information, not how it is obtained.</p>