Has anybody been watching Anderson Cooper today?

[SeattleGirl]

His show is "Angels of the Storm" today. He's been talking to several doctors, one of whom he (Anderson) was riding around in a boat with. They found a man walking through waist deep filthy water and brought him on board the boat. The doctor was talking later, and said that this problem was NOT from the bottom up, but from the top down. Talked about how he was working side by side with police officers and others who were working to help people. "This is absolutely criminal. Criminal. No other way to put it. It's a disgrace."

Then Anderson talked to several of the staff at Charity Hospital, and how they were told help was coming, but after awhile they realized it was not. There was a helicopter that was supposed to go between Charity and Tulane Hospitals, and the Charity staffers watched as Tulane was evacuated, but Charity was not. One of the doctors started crying.

I'm so glad that the truth is getting out there.

[Robert Oak]

1. Something has changed

I hope Cooper keeps the "journalist enlightenment".

Previously we had Cooper standing like an idiot in the hurricane showing how powerful it is..
now he's exposing what the truth is.

Probably the biggest example of a journalist who "woke up".

Charity has to be one of the top examples of outright discrimination
against the poor. It was so completely outrageous and many died who did not have to.

[SeattleGirl]

3. I think Cooper has been through a baptism by fire (or rather, water)

I saw him talking to Aaron Brown last night on NewsNight, and Aaron told Anderson he was getting concerned about the reports who had been there almost from the beginning, because of the stress they have felt and shown on-air (no, Aaron wasn't dissing showing stress on air, just expressing concern about their state of mind). Anderson told Aaron that he could not leave. He said something like, "For those of us on the ground here, we cannot leave. We have to keep this up front."

Wow, real news media!

[Mein Bush]

6. Aaron seems to have truly tuned in to what's happening.

Rove's current spinning could well be clearing some heads of former "inbedded" reporters.

Let's hope there aren't too many relapses.

[LSK]

2. yes, I have been watching him as much as I can

He TRULY has been de-programmed. He has been in the worst situations since the storm and he continues to stay in New Orleans. He is rapidly becoming one of my favorites. And yes I know he was drinking the kool-aide before.

He just did the story about the hospital that was neglected.

His stories repeat and reinforce the theme that the locals on the ground are the real heros that were abandoned by the FEDS.

[faithnotgreed]

4. big kick for anderson cooper - a tremendous job he is doing

in his coverage of this devastation

amazing and wonderful to see such humanity from the media

[TahitiNut]

5. A shift from a teleological to a deontological ethic in a world view ...

... is always nice to see. It's especially during the shock seeing the carnage that was "unforeseen" by the odds-making consequentialists that people begin to comprehend the superiority of a duty-based deontological ethical system. "Shoulda, woulda, coulda" -- the lament of a converted utilitarian.

Remember, utiltitarians rely on crystal balls -- they presume god-like precognition.

[Hardrada]

8. Hegel comes in handy too.

Bushco world view meets Katrina (Major antithesis). A new journalistic synthesis or Zeigeist on the Gulf Coast.

[TahitiNut]

10. (hehehe) Now we're really talking advanced ethical concepts.

I'd be astounded to regard Bushco as accepting of any dialecticism in the development of their worldview. For them, 'synthesis' certainly has a role in 'catapulting' -- but only as ammunition, and in the most primitive sense.

I tend to suspect that Hegel describes my own ethical development. Perhaps I'd be more confident in this if I thought I understood him better. That he regarded 'logic' as the study of reality itself is something to which I'm attuned.

Suffice it to say, in the Hegelian sense, that Bushco serves us well, if only as a bad example - perhaps one of the worst possible. There's not much question in my skull-filling that they're the antithesis of virtually everything I regard as democratic. I can't help, however, but see it as a national (and global) regression in composing a sense of the ideal (expression of Volksgeist/Weltgeist). And that's not especially Hegelian, for sure.

Ahhh... what a wonderful playground! :silly:

[Sgent]

7. FYI

Tulane was evacuated by private helicopters chartered by HCA Healthcare who operates Tulane Hospital. As a goodwill gesture, they also evacuated 50 of the sickest charity patients.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Thanks for the info.

The doc in the piece said the helicopter was to be used for both hospitals. He may or may not have known it was privately chartered. I DO know he was near the end of his rope, so even if someone told him, it may not have registered.

[donsu]

11. yes, but, yesterday/nite he wasn't 'on site' in NO. the angel stories

were/are not new news. those stories were done before.

maybe he was taking a day of rest before plunging back in.