Hunting The Muse

Peter Arnett

Peter Arnett is a famous reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting in Vietnam, and won awards for his reporting in the 1991 Gulf War. Over the weekend, he told Iraqi television that America's first war plan had failed. Today he was fired.

It's really curious to me - yesterday I read an article where NBC is defending them. But then on Monday, they fired him. Plus, it was widely supported that Arnett apologized. Well, he's been rehired by the British media and it's clear that his "apology", as explained by an exclusive written by him, was merely apologizing for leaving himself so open for commercial pressure to convince his employers to fire him.

To me, I what is more interesting than the events: that he talked to Iraqi television, that he was defended, that he was fired; is what happened that led to him being fired. Who got called? Who complained? What led to the decision being made? Why the turnaround from Sunday to Monday?

Not everyone thinks the firing was unwarranted. Check out what Walter Cronkite has to say. Posted by Curt at March 31, 2003 10:06 PM