Peter Arnett
Peter Gregg Arnett , ONZM (born November 13, 1934 in Riverton , New Zealand ) is an American war correspondent .
Life
Arnett reported for the Associated Press (AP) for a long time and was among other things in the Vietnam War . In 1966 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Vietnam . During the Gulf War in 1991 he reported for CNN . In the meantime he was the only journalist in Baghdad .
Peter Arnett became particularly well-known when he stood on the roof of the Hotel Raschid with Bernard Shaw and John Holliman at the beginning of the second Gulf War and introduced the first night of the war with the sentence: "The sky over Baghdad is illuminated."
Because he granted an interview to Iraqi television in late March 2003, during the American attack on Iraq, in which he analyzed the attack, he was dismissed without notice by his employer NBC shortly afterwards - despite his quick apology .
Works
- At the risk of life: the CNN reporter live from the world's theaters of war . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-426-77245-0
literature
- William Prochnau: Once upon a distant war: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett, young war correspondents and their early Vietnam battles . Vintage Books, New York 1996
Web links
- Peter Arnett in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ U. Ladurner: War reporter: Reporter without a compass . In: Die Zeit , No. 16/2003
- ↑ War reporter Arnett falls from grace again. In: FAZ.net . March 31, 2003, accessed December 14, 2014 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Arnett, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arnett, Peter Gregg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American war correspondent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riverton, New Zealand |