Walter Cronkite (yes he is still alive) has an editorial in the New York Times this morning (registration required) on Peter Arnett's interview with Iraq TV and subsequent firing.

I didn't remember that Arnett won a Pulitzer Prize. I did remember he was embedded in Iraq in the first war and was the only correspondent allowed to do so during the last war.

Cronkite points out Arnett was a bonehead for granting the interview, which we all knew, but he makes a good case that what he did was not treason, which is defined as "aid and comfort to the enemy" and that his credibility will undermine the rest of his otherwise very significant career.