The BBC might want to hire him He fits perfectly with their slanted anti-american spin.

Hell, why not send him to Al-Jazeera?

No points to the Nat. Geo.

Arnett's history was well-known, and may have had everything to do with why he was hired on in first place.

NG's true regret might be that Arnett didn't play his cards smarter, so he could hang in there through the postwar cleanup, when he will be needed to provide a counterweight to some very inconvenient facts.

Peter Arnett was the voice of Gulf War I.

His authority as a propaganda tool for either side is accentuated.

Did he express his views also, on MSNBC or US television, or was he telling the Iraqis that the USA did not stand a chance? Is he totally spun out?

There was probably a gun aimed at his head. It is right for him to be sacked.

I hope he does not return to New Zealand, but he may. We already have our share of terror threats from nutters who want to poison roll-yer-own tobacco with cyanide...

Comic Timing Dept:

There is a snippet in today's Broadcasting & Cable magazine that is worth quoting in full:

"Veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett, in Baghdad for National Geographic Explorer, NBC News and MSNBC, said last week he gets almost "perverse pleasure" being in the Iraqi capital covering the second Gulf War while his fomer network, CNN, is not. "CNN is not represented here and the story they are most associated with," said Arnett. CNN dropped him about four years ago."

Heh.

Wonder if celebs and the news media are finally getting the message that anti-Americanism isn't selling well at the moment.

His firing will cost NG plenty. I expected NBC/MSNBC to can him, but not NG. I'm sure they had plenty of documentaries planned with his footage. I expected them to keep him on as a non-live documentarian barring him from interviews; they had too much invested. I think it took guts to fire him outright. There will be write-offs next quarter for them.