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Paul Victorey · 03-31-2003, 11:15 AM

Don't see anything really wrong with what he said. He has always covered the civilian casualties of war, that was his expertise, and if he seems upset at the US government's conduct, remember what the government had done to him. He was labelled a "traitor" for reporting on civilian casualties. He was fired from CNN, after pressure from the Pentagon, because he did a story about the US's use of Sarin gas in Laos to kill US soldiers who fled the Vietnam war. CNN was put under pressure by the military to disavow that report, and they did; they fired all the journalists who refused to issue a retraction. The Pentagon threatened to effectively blacklist CNN from getting any military stories unless they fired Arnell, so they did.

Realitically, he's not saying anything that other people haven't been saying all this time already.

03-31-2003, 11:15 AM	#19
Paul Victorey Member (12 bit) Join Date: Mar 1999 Location: MN or WI Posts: 3,017	Don't see anything really wrong with what he said. He has always covered the civilian casualties of war, that was his expertise, and if he seems upset at the US government's conduct, remember what the government had done to him. He was labelled a "traitor" for reporting on civilian casualties. He was fired from CNN, after pressure from the Pentagon, because he did a story about the US's use of Sarin gas in Laos to kill US soldiers who fled the Vietnam war. CNN was put under pressure by the military to disavow that report, and they did; they fired all the journalists who refused to issue a retraction. The Pentagon threatened to effectively blacklist CNN from getting any military stories unless they fired Arnell, so they did. Realitically, he's not saying anything that other people haven't been saying all this time already.