Peter Arnett who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Vietnam for the Associated Press and went on to become one of the founding pillars of CNN has died at the age of 91.
Born in New Zealand, Arnett covered the Vietnam War for the AP from 1962 until 1975. Later, he joined CNN and was part of a team of reporters and anchors who led the network’s coverage of the first Gulf War in 1991.
Toward the end of his career, he ran into controversy for his narration of a report CNN later retracted about a war atrocity in Laos and for his commentary criticizing the U.S. military plan for the war in Iraq in 2003.
While the New York Times published a major story on Arnett’s death, CNN ran an AP story barely noticeable on the network’s home page.
