Word: arnett
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...jingoistic broadsides so far, the ugliest was issued last week by Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson, who erupted over CNN's reporting from Baghdad. Not content to raise legitimate questions about the network's airing of censored material, Simpson, citing an anonymous source, accused CNN correspondent Peter Arnett of being an Iraqi "sympathizer." What evidence did the Senator have, other than the fact that Arnett is the only correspondent for an American news organization reporting continuously from Baghdad since the war began, albeit under the acknowledged control and censorship of the Iraqi government? Well, said Simpson, in a befuddled attempt...
...dispatches from Iraq itself have posed unique problems. CNN's Peter % Arnett, the last American correspondent left in Baghdad, has been filing reports via satellite with the approval of Iraqi censors. Fears that his dispatches are being used for propaganda purposes surged last week, when Arnett reported that allied bombs had hit a plant that manufactured infant formula. U.S. officials insist that it produced biological weapons...
...executives defend the airing of Arnett's reports so long as they are clearly identified as Iraqi approved. "The alternative," says executive vice president Ed Turner, "is to pack up and leave, and then there is no one there at all." CNN, along with NBC and CBS, also aired footage of American POWs making pro-Iraqi statements, apparently under duress. ABC refused to broadcast the statements, noting that its policy is to avoid using anything said by hostages that "furthers the aims of those holding them...
...most military sites, they can travel only under military escort and the escorts censor all outgoing news dispatches. The White House has also lashed out at journalists who have not transmitted the unadorned Pentagon line to the public. Last week, presidential spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater accused veteran CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, one of a handful of Western correspondents remaining in Baghdad, of being a "conduit" for Iraqi propaganda because he reported that allied warplanes had bombed a milk factory...