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...News last week, drew a map in the sand, on camera, that gave away his unit's location. (In Afghanistan, Rivera had reported that he was at the site of a friendly fire incident that occurred miles away, so knowing where he was was an improvement.) And Peter Arnett, a legendary war correspondent under contract with NBC News and MSNBC, gave an interview to Iraqi state TV in which he obsequiously praised the "courtesy" of Iraqi information ministers, opined that the original coalition war plan had "failed" because of Iraqi resistance and said reporting of civilian casualties had aided...
Which man was fired and had a U.S. Senator declare that he should be tried for treason? Not the guy who painted an electronic bull's-eye on a group of soldiers (though Rivera was moved from the front lines to Kuwait). It was Arnett, one of the few remaining American TV reporters in Baghdad, because he offered boneheaded punditry--not substantively different from boneheaded punditry all around the American media--to the wrong interviewer. Nor were decorated officers safe from scrutiny. At a Pentagon briefing, General Richard Myers blasted retired generals serving as news analysts for criticizing the Pentagon...
...rebroadcast deals to pick up selected footage.) Arabs and Muslims distrustful of Western media--like Turkish students and professors who burned a TV last week to protest CNN's "one-sided" coverage--are happy to have their own alternatives. "We saw [Gulf War I] through the eyes of Peter Arnett," says Nabil El-Sharif, editor in chief of Jordan's Ad-Dustour newspaper, referring to a war correspondent for CNN in 1991. "Now we're seeing the war through Arab eyes...
...have already seen more of Gulf War II than we did of all of Gulf War I. The best known TV scoop of the 1991 war was essentially radio: CNN's Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett and John Holliman describing the air attack on an audio line while the network broadcast their photographs over a map of Iraq. In sheer visual terms, last week's telecasts--with digital-age 3D animations, live interviews from the middle of an invasion and space-agey dispatches by videophone--were to their predecessor as Grand Theft Auto is to Pong...
...Oscars preshow. And when the first missiles hit, ABC's Peter Jennings was nowhere to be found, hustling onto the set shortly before Bush addressed the nation. As if to redeem itself, the network stayed with the story longer than its rivals. NBC got riveting reports from Baghdad from Arnett, on loan from MSNBC's National Geographic Explorer--he welcomed incoming fire like a bracing morning shower--but anchorman Tom Brokaw should save his sentimental streak for his WW II books...