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Stating the obvious [or "HOME OF THE FREE: ARNETT JOINS MIRROR"]
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Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:24:55 GMT
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Poor Mr Arnett; sacked for sating the obvious one day:
Veteran reporter sacked over TV claims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927000,00.html
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The national TV network, NBC, fired Arnett after he granted an impromptu
interview to Iraq's state-run television, during which he echoed widespread
scepticism over the Pentagon's strategy.
"Clearly, the American war plans misjudged the determination of the Iraqi
forces," he said. "Now America is reappraising the battlefield, delaying the
war, maybe a week and rewriting the war plan. The first plan has failed because
of Iraqi resistance."
Arnett claimed that negative dispatches from the front would undermine the war
effort. "It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to
develop their arguments," he said.
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… and hired by a UK [“anit-war”] tabloid the next:
HOME OF THE FREE: ARNETT JOINS MIRROR
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12795796&method=full&siteid=50143
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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”.
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After his sacking, Pulitzer Prize winner Arnett said: “I report the truth of
what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologise for it. I have always
admired your newspaper and am proud to be working for it.”
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...we live in strange times.
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