Sen. Simpson on CNN
Howard Rosenberg’s highly disparaging and insulting comments (Feb. 12) against Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Charlton Heston for questioning the role of Peter Arnett’s reporting in Baghdad were infuriating. I think most Americans would agree with them, not Rosenberg.
Before they spoke I had written Ted Turner, CNN’s owner, with the same objection. Arnett’s reporting should be labeled “the voice of Iraq,” since Hussein’s own communications capabilities have been largely destroyed. Will Rosenberg be as quick to infer that Jane Fonda, Turner’s fiancee, is a “brainwashed moron” when she makes her inevitable anti-American trip to Baghdad?
HOWARD C. LOCKWOOD
Lake View Terrace
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