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Mon Jan-18-10 10:17 PM
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Did anyone else see Anderson Cooper helping out that kid who got hit on the |
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Edited on Mon Jan-18-10 10:32 PM by applegrove
head and was bleeding? What a brave reporter he was to be there to witness the looting. At one point all of the women left the street where the looting was going on. Then Anderson helped that poor child. I don't know where guts like that come from.
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Mon Jan-18-10 10:19 PM
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I remember when the cameramen in New Orleans had to interrupt Anderson petting stray dogs to get him to perform for the camera during Katrina coverage - that dude has a big heart
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Mon Jan-18-10 10:42 PM
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2. I've been watching since he came on at 10:00 |
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I think he does a very good job with "disaster reporting" and it was ballsy of him to put down the camera and get that kid out of there. He's talkng to Sanjay Gupta now and I give him credit, too. I've never really been a big fan of his, but I have to say it took some guts to stay with the patients all night after the other doctors left them.
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Mon Jan-18-10 10:47 PM
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3. Yup. I think unrest is only going to get worse. I'm so afraid for those people in Haiti. |
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Mon Jan-18-10 10:48 PM
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4. Shows Anderson is human.....? |
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Mon Jan-18-10 11:17 PM
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8. We've known that AT LEAST since Katrina. |
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He tries to do a good job. (I must say only 'network' I watch is msnbc for rachel, and sometimes KO. THEN its elsewhere, for Morse, Sherlock Holmes, and Law and Order!)
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Mon Jan-18-10 11:26 PM
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10. Kerry Sanders on MSNBC/NBC |
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is doing a good job, too. He also seemed to be very frustrated and angry, from what I saw over the weekend.
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Mon Jan-18-10 10:49 PM
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5. He's getting very angry at the situation there. It's real emotion. Carrying that bleeding |
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boy to safety earlier amidst the chaos that was unfolding around him was pretty bold and a very admirable move.
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Mon Jan-18-10 11:00 PM
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6. I saw that. It was very dramatic and disturbing. |
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Things are getting worse, not better in Haiti.
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Mon Jan-18-10 11:07 PM
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7. Scary. Good for Anderson Cooper. |
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Mon Jan-18-10 11:25 PM
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9. Anderson and Gupta are top notch. |
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Tue Jan-19-10 12:50 AM
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11. Taking food and water to survive is NOT looting. |
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It's survival. I'm so sick of that misstatement.
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:21 AM
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17. Thank you - if you haven't eaten for days, your survival skills would set in and you would |
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call it foraging. I think it is extremely crappy of the shop owner to load up food supplies, as if they still "owned" in this situation.
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:44 AM
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Tue Jan-19-10 05:31 AM
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12. Anderson and Gupta are reporting... |
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But they're also willing to give a big middle finger to the camera, and act human. Kudos to them.
This is what journalism used to be like, before it got all "objective" and "politically independent", and "unbiased" and "detached".
Check out WWII footage, the photographers and reporters there didn't pretend, and they also had their human moments of "AW HELL NO" and stepping in.
That's why we used to trust them.
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:08 AM
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13. I've been watching all the time. Agree he is strong in many ways. |
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Saw the Anderson/Sanjay discussion too.
Those two are amazingly physically fit or else they couldn't endure the way they are.
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:44 AM
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They are reporters with a conscience. And Anderson Cooper definitely works out and is in great shape.
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:24 AM
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15. The story of how he ended up on CNN is fascinating |
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He would fashion fake press credentials and go into war zones and file independent news stories. He has no background in journalism.
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:31 AM
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16. I imagine lots and lots of reporters do kind things when the cameras are off |
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Not to take anything away from Gupta and Anderson, but it's possible other reporters don't do it in front of the camera because they need to be perceived as professional and emotionally balanced in their reporting. You can see reporters grow increasingly weary and depressed in situations like this if you watch long enough even as their words are still professional. It's a grim job under such extreme conditions.
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:29 AM
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18. He is also going to be on George Clooney's telethon this week ... |
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...seems like Katrina really knocked some empathy loose in him and he cares a whole lot more than the other talking heads on tv.
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