Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: !carroll@ssc-vax.uucp (Jeff Carroll) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: CNN From Baghdad Message-ID: <16426@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 24 Jan 91 21:02:51 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Jeff Carroll Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics Lines: 28 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 67, Message 9 of 11 In article <16212@accuvax.nwu.edu> crawford@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Brian Crawford) writes: >In article <16192@accuvax.nwu.edu>, bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob >Sherman) writes: >> Arnett elected to stay behind in Iraq against the advice of CNN in Atlanta. >Was this before or after Iraq officially expelled western journalists? >I would be curious to know if he remains there despite the expulsion. My understanding is that Arnett was specifically exempted from the expulsion. The Iraqis are not as dumb as we would like to think, and this is ample evidence of that. Whereas there was no possibility of amply censoring *all* the news stories going out on *all* the news services while everyone was there, it's very easy for them to censor *one* reporter - who just happens to work for the news service that everyone in the world - including the BBC has been relying on through the crisis. (It was strange to hear the Beeb playing tapes of Shaw, Arnett, and Holliman through the first couple days of the war. On the other hand, I was able to hear the BBC even without my shortwave set through our local NPR affiliate, who broadcast BBC World Service instead of the usual classical music.) Jeff Carroll carroll@atc.boeing.com