Last action hero

“In the age of digitized battle, is there still such thing as a war correspondent?” According to New York Metro, NZ-born Peter Arnett is the last, and greatest, of a dying breed: “He is the real thing, an actual slogging-in-the-mud combat reporter […] who, by a media fluke became a famous person.” At 67, Arnett is returning to Iraq as a freelance war reporter – taking on his former employers at CNN at their own game.