Arnett phones home
“So Broadcast News meets Armageddon. It’s a rilly big show!” Telefilm Live From Baghdad – based on Robert Wiener’s memoir of CNN’s involvement in the Gulf War – aired on US HBO December 7. Starring Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter and Bruce McGill, Baghdad looks at whose voice was really reaching the American public. Just how did CNN’s main man (NZ’s Peter Arnett) get a working telephone line, anyway…?