Sacked journalist just another casualty of war

TWO of television’s marquis journalists were dismissed from high-profile reporting assignments in Iraq yesterday, chastised for allegedly breaking ironclad, if sometimes unspoken rules that govern reporting in the US-led war there.

Award-winning news correspondent Peter Arnett, famed for his coverage of the Vietnam War and the first Gulf War, was sacked yesterday by NBC, after telling Iraqi state-run television that the US war plan had failed.

Meanwhile, celebrity TV journalist Geraldo Rivera was told by US military officials yesterday that he is no longer welcome to accompany US troops there.