Peter Arnett

Peter Arnett (born 1934) is a New Zealand-born journalist and naturalized US citizen. Arnett worked for National Geographic magazine, and then for television. He is well known for his coverage of war, including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. He was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work in Vietnam, where he was present from 1962 to 1975, most of the time reporting for the Associated Press news agency. He became respected as someone who did not trust anything he had not seen with his own eyes, but made several missteps in the last fifteen years that hurt his reputation and ended his American television career.

External links

• CNN interview with Arnett, looking back at Operation Desert Storm
• Arnett on his Osama bin Laden interview
• National Geographic Fires Peter Arnett
• CNN transcript of Arnett's controversial remarks made in 2003
• Washingtion Post article on the 2003 interview
• Try Arnett for treason, senator says - article in the Cincinnati Enquirer
• Fired CNN journalist on dismissal of Arnett
• FAIR: CNN's "Tailwind" and Selective Media Retractions