Journalist Peter Arnett, covering the war from Baghdad, told state-run Iraqi TV in an interview aired Sunday that the American-led coalition's first war plan had failed because of Iraq's resistance and said strategists are "trying to write another war plan."
The first Bush administration was unhappy with Arnett's reporting in 1991 for CNN, suggesting he had become a conveyor of propaganda. He was denounced for his reporting about an allied bombing of a baby milk factory in Baghdad that the military said was a biological weapons plant. The American military responded vigorously to the suggestion it had targeted a civilian facility, but Arnett stood by his reporting that the plant's sole purpose was to make baby formula.
This occurred to me when Dan Rather was interviewing Saddam a few weeks ago. Why don't these "objective" journalists ever ask dictators real questions? Instead they take the dictator at face value. But let an American official criticize them and they'll yell censorship. How in the world does Arnett know that the factory produced baby milk besides being told that? I’m sure Arnett would want more proof it were a U.S. factory being bombed. And how can Peter Arnett assess from Bagdad that the U.S. is writing another war plan? And what kept Peter Arnett from getting a regular gig on Iraqi state TV after the last war?
UPDATE: NBC Severs Ties With Journalist Peter Arnett
FINALLY!!!
UPDATE #2 Daily Mirror newspaper hires fired journalist Peter Arnett
In the free world there will always be some publication who will freely publish a Marxist.
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