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...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...
...Elsa C. Arnett...
News Editor for This Issue: Martha A. Bridegam '89 Night Editors for This Issue: Elsa C. Arnett '89 David J. Barron '89 Emily M. Bernstein '90 Noam S. Cohen '89 Neil A. Cooper '91 David P. Greene '91 Editorial Editor for This Issue: Laurie M. Grossman '89 City-State Editor for This Issue: Martha A. Bridegam '89 Sports Editor for This Issue: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Photo Editor for This Issue: Anh T. Nguyen '90 Copy Editor for This Issue: Kelly D. Eckel...