NBC: Arnett out after Iraqi TV interview

blade · Post by **blade** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 9:46 pm

Good!

I saw his rambling traitor bs and he deserved to be fired, if he was serious about what he said. Basically he was giving propaganda on Iraqi TV FOR them. :;

But, maybe he was forced. The truth will come out eventually.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/ ... index.html

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 10:06 pm

ya what a dickhead he was... did he not thing he was gonna have a job after that interview lol

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 10:12 pm

Yeah I am glad they fired him. Now if there was just something we could do about all the other journalists who seem so quick to find fault with all that is going on. The other day I heard one of them ask a General if we were having second thoughts after sustaining 25 American casualties. I mean come on give us a break

SlowSS · Post by **SlowSS** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 11:00 pm

Daily Mirror just hired arnett. And now, Arnett is saying he told the truth and don't have anything to apologize for.
He can't make up his mind about the apology cuz this morning he said he was sorry.

Daily Mirror newspaper hires fired journalist Peter Arnett
1 hour, 42 minutes ago

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 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 Baghdad and will not apologize for it."

NBC fired Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Vietnam for The Associated Press, on March 31, angered that he had given an unauthorized interview
with state-run Iraqi TV saying the American-led war effort initially failed because of Iraq's resistance.

The network said it got thousands of e-mails and phone calls protesting his remarks.

Post by **sbp** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 11:40 pm

Its sickening how Arnett goes on tv for a regime that has been killing and holding reporters in addition to everyone else.

Telling the truth? Thats a joke.

This is not the first time Arnett has done this.

A White House official said Arnett was "coming from a position of complete ignorance. He's never designed a war plan or implemented a war plan. His judgment is suspect. . . . For him to state that to the Iraqi people is, I'd suspect, a certain level of pandering."

As Arnett noted in the interview, the first Bush administration "got very angry and called me a traitor" when he was a CNN correspondent in Baghdad in 1991. Then-Sen. Alan Simpson apologized for calling Arnett an Iraqi "sympathizer," saying he should have used the word "dupe" or "tool."

During that war, Arnett, whose reporting was censored by Iraqi handlers, interviewed Hussein and took a two-hour guided tour of what Iraq said was an infant-formula factory destroyed by American bombing. U.S. officials said the building was used to make biological weapons, and Marlin Fitzwater, then White House spokesman, accused Arnett of serving as a conduit for Iraqi "disinformation."

Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Associated Press reporting in Vietnam, suffered a major embarrassment in 1998 when he narrated a CNN documentary that had to be retracted over charges that U.S. troops had used nerve gas in that war. Arnett protested that he had contributed "not one comma" to the script, but CNN did not renew his contract the next year.

These news reporters are scum and are so full of themselves. They are undermining the effort. If they had their way, some of these reporters would report news that would put troops lives at risk. They come close already.

the U.S. war plan has "failed." So the coalition forces should rush in just to satisfy these pinheads? So the coalition forces should rush in instead of using air strikes to soften up the enemy?

Funny how these dummies began to talk about a quagmire after less than a week. Just like Afghanistan days before the Taliban fell.

Post by **sbp** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 11:49 pm

Now take a look at that ahole Geraldo Rivera.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/ ... index.html

What sparked the controversy was a Monday report by Rivera that U.S. military officials said violated an important Pentagon rule imposed on its so-called embedded correspondents working inside fighting U.S. military units. Rivera had provided crucial details of a future military operation, officials said.

In a live broadcast from the Iraqi desert, Rivera instructed his photographer to tilt the camera down to the sand in front of his feet so that he could draw a map. Rivera then outlined a map of Iraq, and showed the relative location of Baghdad and his location with the Army's 101st Airborne unit. The reporter then continued with his diagram to illustrate where the 101st would be going next.

"He gave away the big picture stuff," one stunned senior military official told CNN. "He went down in the sand and drew where the forces are going."

blade · Post by **blade** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 11:56 pm

I thought Rivera had more sense than to do that, obviously not. He should be forever barred from any futrure wars or skirmishes for that brainless bs.

Glad they are being dealt with but they need to make it more clear to all the reporters there now about what they do show on TV can cost the lives of our servicemen. Of course they probably thought common sense would come into play, but when has that stopped many reporters looking for the latest scoop, regardless of any consequences.

Judg3 · Post by **Judg3** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:02 am

On a side note, if anyone can find an mpeg, avi, etc of the Arnett interview, please send it my way. That CNN article has a link to the .ram version, but I don't know how to save em (Plus, you need to be subscribed to some real.com service as well)

blade · Post by **blade** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:13 am

Interesting take on Arnett from Walter Cronkite:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/01CRON.html

<i>Under the Constitution, giving "aid and comfort" to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason. So far as I know no one has yet suggested that Peter Arnett be charged with that capital offense. But it seems that Mr. Arnett hangs by a rope of his own weaving.

Mr. Arnett, of course, is the former reporter in Baghdad for NBC and National Geographic who was fired for giving an interview to state-controlled Iraqi television. In the interview he criticized the American military effort and praised the morale of the Iraqi people and the cooperation of Iraq's information ministry — this latter despite the fact that many American correspondents have been ejected from the country and, indeed, two of them are missing, last heard from in Baghdad.

Clearly Mr. Arnett, in granting the interview, was cozying up to sources he depended on for, first, their tolerance of him in Baghdad and, second, any information he could get: about Iraq's military posture, its claims of combat successes and techniques, and the morale of its populace.</i>

I'd expect one of the news sites will have a video of his interview eventually, Judge3. Did you try to "save target as"?

Judg3 · Post by **Judg3** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:22 am

Yeah, it was a no go "Can't save blah blah blah blah" Ill grab it eventually

Post by **sbp** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:07 am