War Correspondent Peter Arnett And American Wartime Press Freedom

Peter Arnett,a New Zealand-American war correspondent,has been widely recognized in the industry for his involvement in war reports throughout his life.At the beginning of the war in iraq in 2003,he was fired by his employer NBC for "guilt in words ".This is not simply a news event,it is thought-provoking about America's wartime freedom of the press,hidden in the aftermath.From this,the author selects three typical regional wars launched by the United States,namely Vietnam War,Gulf War and Iraq War,which Peter Arnett participated in to analyze and combine his reports.The article is divided into three parts.The first part mainly introduces the origin and ending of Peter Arnett's war field journalist's career and the background of the times that he run through these experiences.The second part is based on the typical example reported by Peter Arnett in the above three wars,the reports of his colleagues in the contract era,the photographic works and the research materials of historians,to restore the truth of the events at that time and the actions of their related personnel,and to expose the falsehood of American wartime press freedom and the hypocrisy of government related personnel.The third part mainly focuses on the experience of Peter Arnett,combined with the changes of the wartime news control system in the United States at that time and its related political and economic motivation,the special relationship between the government and the military and the mainstream media,analyzes the inevitability of Peter Arnett's encounter,reveals the nature of the wartime freedom of the press proclaimed by the United States government and the military and the negative effects of it.