NBC NEWS dumps reporter for reporting good iraq news

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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story... Thursday, Feb. 12, 2004

Arnot: NBC Dumped Me for Finding Positive News in Iraq

NBC has refused to renew the contract of Iraq correspondent Dr. Bob Arnot. He says the reason is that he dares to find progress.


"In a 1,300-word e-mail to NBC News president Neal Shapiro, written in December 2003 and obtained by NYTV, Dr. Arnot called NBC News' coverage of Iraq biased. He argued that keeping him in Iraq and on NBC could go far in rectifying that," the New York Observer's Joe Hagan reported today.

"Dr. Arnot included excerpts from an e-mail from Jim Keelor, president of Liberty Broadcasting, which owns eight NBC stations throughout the South. Mr. Keelor had written NBC, stating that "the networks are pretty much ignoring" the good-news stories in Iraq. 'The definition of news would incorporate some of these stories,' he wrote. 'Hence the Fox News surge.'"

Keelor told the Observer: "Of course it's political. Journalism and news is what unusual [events] happened that day. And if the schools are operating, they can say that's usual. My response to that is, 'The hell it is.' My concern there is that almost everything that has occurred in Iraq since the war started is unexpected."

In his letter to Shapiro, Arnot wondered, as has the Bush administration, why the network refused to admit positive developments in Iraq. "As you know, I have regularly pitched most of these stories contained in the note to Nightly, Today and directly to you. Every single story has been rejected."


Arnot told the Observer he knew for "a fact" that Shapiro’s problem with his reporting was that "it was just very positive."

[timNms]

This doesn't surprise me. The liberal new media doesn't want the American public to know the whole truth. Sure, there is news in Iraq that isn't "good", but I'm willing to wager that there is just as much "good" news as "bad". We rarely hear about any progress made.

[sunnyday]

This is hard to believe. I think there is more to this story.

[wx247]

Dr. Bob Arnot was fired for more than this. Have you ever seen him report?? NUTCASE!!!

[sunnyday]

Wx, I thought I remembered some problems with Arnot before. I don't think he was fired for giving good news.

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seemed like a good reporter to me

[TexasStooge]

Why don't they take out the good news in Iraq altogether if they're that bad off.

[southerngale]

They rarely report good news. The media is mostly liberal. Good news in Iraq reflects well on Bush. Need I say more?

[Lindaloo]

They rarely report good news. The media is mostly liberal. Good news in Iraq reflects well on Bush. Need I say more?

AMEN sista!! AMEN!!

[wx247]

This right here says it all. Hmmm... can't have your cake and eat it too!

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3550

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3545

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3567

Don't think Mr. Arnett was released for being pro-American.