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...lightning rod for most of these complaints has been CNN's Peter Arnett. Since the all-news network was allowed to remain in Baghdad after most journalists were evicted, Arnett has been broadcasting a stream of reports under Iraqi supervision, mostly showing damage caused by allied bombing. Though CNN carefully labels these reports Iraqi-cleared, they have drawn fire for giving Saddam a conduit for his portrayal of the war. Senator Alan Simpson has impugned Arnett's patriotism; talk-show callers have heaped invective on the reporter. If Arnett were awarded "the Iraq Medal of Honor by Saddam Hussein," suggested...
...Brown Bag Lunch With Charles Bierbauer"--White House correspondent for CNN. Kennedy School, in Taubman 275 at noon...
...tenth-graders did poorly on a math test. When the results came back, the class asked the teacher for a makeup exam, explaining how unfair it was to quiz them on the morning after the first missile attack of the war. They had lost too much sleep watching CNN the night before...
...jingoistic broadsides so far, the ugliest was issued last week by Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson, who erupted over CNN's reporting from Baghdad. Not content to raise legitimate questions about the network's airing of censored material, Simpson, citing an anonymous source, accused CNN correspondent Peter Arnett of being an Iraqi "sympathizer." What evidence did the Senator have, other than the fact that Arnett is the only correspondent for an American news organization reporting continuously from Baghdad since the war began, albeit under the acknowledged control and censorship of the Iraqi government? Well, said Simpson, in a befuddled attempt...
...such things as block grants and toxic-waste disposal. Being Commander in Chief is more glorious and important than being commander of enterprise zones. But without presidential leadership, inertia is likely to set in on the home front. Television screens flicker throughout the Federal Triangle as bureaucrats play CNN generals rather than go about the unglamorous work of governing. Reducing America's appetite for foreign oil, finding an affordable way to restore civility to cities that resemble war zones, giving the 20% of America's children who live in poverty a way out, funding medical care for the 37 million...