NBC sacks Arnett
03-31-03 | 12:17 PM
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NBC sacks Arnett
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(Reuters) - American television network NBC said on Monday it had severed its relations with veteran reporter Peter Arnett after he told Iraqi television that the U.S. war plan against Saddam Hussein had failed. "Peter Arnett will no longer be reporting for NBC News and MSNBC," NBC said in a joint statement with National Geographic, for whom the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter was also working. "I said in that interview essentially what we all know about the war, that there have been delays in implementing policy, there have been surprises," Arnett told NBC's "Today" show. More .:
NBC fires Pete Arnett
(Reuters) - American television network NBC said on Monday it had severed its relations with veteran reporter Peter Arnett after he told Iraqi television that the U.S. war plan against Saddam Hussein had failed. "Peter Arnett will no longer be reporting for NBC News and MSNBC," NBC said in a joint statement with National Geographic, for whom the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter was also working. "I said in that interview essentially what we all know about the war, that there have been delays in implementing policy, there have been surprises," Arnett told NBC's "Today" show. More .:
NBC fires Pete Arnett
03-31-03 | 12:20 PM
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Pretty funny considering that a couple days ago he was mocking about how CNN fired him, but he's still in Baghdad reporting for NBC/NG while the CNN team got kicked out.
03-31-03 | 12:22 PM
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