S. Robert Lichter

S. Robert Lichter is president of the Washington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs and Professor of Communication at George Mason University. Until 2008 he was a paid contributor to the Fox News Channel.


 * Press Commission, American Institutions of Democracy

Biography
According to the CMPA website, "Dr. Lichter previously taught at Princeton, Georgetown, and George Washington universities. He also served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics and Psychology at Yale University, Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University, and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at Smith College, and he held the DeWitt Wallace Chair in Mass Communications at the American Enterprise Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota. "

Furthermore, until 2008 he was a paid contributor to the Fox News Channel.

Robert Lichter's criticisms of Peter Arnett
Lichter has repeatedly criticised Peter Arnett.

According to FAIR, at a conference sponsored by Accuracy In Media after the first Gulf War, Lichter was reported by AP (4/27/91) to have said "...he was disappointed in statements by [Peter] Arnett upon his return from Baghdad that he was in the enemy capital on behalf of all CNN viewers, not just Americans. 'I see a trend toward journalists seeing themselves as citizens of the world' rather than patriotic Americans, Lichter said."

Lichter had another go at Arnett in the second Gulf War, during the media feeding frenzy following Arnett's remarks in an interview with Iraqi state television. An April 1, 2004 Washington Post article quoted Lichter saying: "If ever there was a poster boy for bias, it is now Peter Arnett." 

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 * Center for Media and Public Affairs
 * Fox News
 * Center for the Study of Social and Political Change