Anderson Cooper Can't Carry Robert Fisk's Jockstrap.

[HuckleB]

Let's not lose perspective via media hype.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/

If you want to know what's happening the ME, Fisk is a great source. Cooper, well, meh.

[Luminous Animal]

1. Yep.

[HuckleB]

28. Yup.

[Buzz Clik]

2. I doubt Cooper is interested in the job.

[HuckleB]

3. True. True. -eom-

[sasha031]

4. he is the best there is

[HuckleB]

5. +1

[HuckleB]

6. A DUer unrecced this?

Scary.

[HEyHEY]

11. I hope you mean Fisk.

[sasha031]

13. I found Robert Fisk before the Iraq war and remained a devoted follower

through those dark times. I don't know if there is an Englishman that has more knowledge of the Middle East than him.

I'm not a fan on anything on CNN

[HEyHEY]

19. read his book about when he disguised himself and traveled with Arabs?

[Ghost Dog]

29. Unlikely there's a Westerner with knowledge of the Middle East than him. n/t

[rhett o rick]

7. Sadly, Anderson Cooper was born with a silver spoon up his ass.

He is one of the Ruling Class as are most of the so-called journalists on TV.

[Dappleganger]

44. And this is his fault how?

[rhett o rick]

47. I didnt claim it to be his fault. Sadly, it affects his journalism. He sees the world thru designer

glasses. Dont expect members of the Ruling Class to help us out. Maybe give us some "cake".

[HEyHEY]

8. Cooper's a tool.

[HuckleB]

9. I don't know about that, but I'm not sure where the perspective is right now.

Especially since more than one unrec has come down on this thread.

Bizarre!

[HEyHEY]

10. Ever since I saw that egomaniac showing himself rescuing a kid on the news

I have no time for his BS. His swashbuckling reporter image he tries so hard to craft is gone as well since he took a powder on Egypt after getting beaten up. Fucking poseur that he is.

[HuckleB]

12. No argument here.

But yet another DUer has voted for Cooper with another unrec.

WTF?

:hi:

[HEyHEY]

20. People, DUers especially, are easy to lead

[EFerrari]

14. There is no one like Fisk. n/t

[HuckleB]

22. +1

[JI7]

15. what's your problem with Anderson , he has been doing well covering Egypt protests

[HuckleB]

16. He's done an adequate reporting job in Egypt.

That doesn't make him anything more than an adequate reporter.

Fisk, on the other hand, has been doing the gruntwork in the ME for decades. He is the one with perspective.

[HEyHEY]

21. Cooper hops on whatever bandwagon he can, gets his info from Reuters

Then films himself re-hashing the shit and throwing in a couple of his own personal eyewitness accounts. Guy's a tool. I haven't seen her in a while, but Amanpour was the best CNN ever had.

[EFerrari]

24. He's about an inch deep. n/t

[ReggieVeggie]

17. Cooper is America's Robert Fisk

That should tell you all you need to know about the American media.

PS Just kidding. I know there are equivalents to Fisk in this country, but a lot of people may think Cooper is this era's Dan Rather or something.

[HuckleB]

18. .

Best post of the night.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

23. Seriously. Al Jazeera English is on LINK TV because of Egypt

for hours a day right now so, I got to hear a candid discussion of the election atrocity we're committing in Haiti right now. I almost fell out of my chair: no kissing up to our government, two informed guests. It was almost too much for me. :)

[HuckleB]

25. +1

[EFerrari]

26. Fisk was on the phone with Amy Goodman this morning.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/9/the_great_tragedy_is_obama_chose

[HuckleB]

27. Sweet! Thanks. I will now be away from DU for a while.

:hi:

[Ignis]

48. Got me...

:spray:

[Obamanaut]

30. It is so hard to keep up with who is currently bringing the tablets down

from the mountain.

Just yesterday Cooper was 'on fire' and/or 'taking on Olberman's mantle', depending on the thread one clicked on.

[HuckleB]

31. Uh, Robert Fisk has been living and reporting on the ME for decades.

This is no cable news flash in the pan.

That's the point.

[Obamanaut]

38. Uh, I guess it's true what the character in the movie "Roadhouse" said:

"Opinions vary."

[Ignis]

49. On experience in reporting on the Middle East? No, not even close.

Opinions are opinions, but the slightest degree of research into comparing the careers of these two gents reveals hard data that's quite germane to the argument made by the OP.

[HuckleB]

51. Nice pointless response.

[Ratty]

32. Sigh. Anderson Cooper in a jockstrap ... sigh

[racaulk]

45. +1!

I'd love to see that. :hi:

[Ratty]

46. Thanks for the +!!

It's nice to see someone else here has their priorities straight. :P

[malaise]

33. Huh

and Duh!!

[Swede]

34. He was targeted by anti mubarak thurs.

He was struck repeatedly,time to leave.

[cali]

35. Fisk is print reporter. Cooper is TV

Fisk is educated on the issues in a way that Cooper certainly isn't. I still don't get your need to praise him by disparaging Cooper. It's lame.

[HuckleB]

36. It has become apparent that many at DU don't know who Fisk is.

Next.

[Obamanaut]

39. Well, aren't we just woefully uninformed. Good for you for knowing. nt

[HuckleB]

50. Not the point at all.

But knock yourself out with the passive aggressive BS.

[Pathwalker]

37. Why would he want to carry someone else's jock strap?

Ick.

[sabrina 1]

40. He is a brilliant reporter who always told the truth

reported facts, no 'both sides are doing it' for him, as we here in the U.S. get all the time.

He is a REAL journalist, someone who has been reporting on the stories the U.S. media is just beginning to notice now, for decades. Too bad there were so few like him. The thugs of the world would have been toppled long ago if we had real journalists in this country like Robert Fisk. It was to him and a few others, like Dahr Jamail, that we had to turn to to get the truth over the past decade.

It's nice that AC is now finally telling the truth about the Egyptian regime. But has he revealed the facts about the close relationship it has to this government? How this government sent people to be tortured there under the supervision of the guy the U.S. is now supporting to take over from Mubarak, Suleiman?

AC will only go so far to tell the truth and only when it has been decided there is no more denying it.

But Fisk never holds back facts as he finds them, in war zones, at the top of governments, or anywhere else. Maybe that is why the Brits are a bit more informed than Americans and why Americans get so excited when someone like AC finally acts like a real journalist, for a while.

[Puregonzo1188]

41. Fisk is great. You wont see anyone like him in the US corporate media.

[Mimosa]

42. Qiute true, PureGonzo.

Fisk predicted the mess we're in back in 2002.

[11 Bravo]

43. Perhaps AC doesn't care to wrestle with you for the privilege.

I think Cooper has done an admirable job of reporting on the turmoil in Cairo.

[HuckleB]

52. Good for you.

All he's done is a basic reporter's job. He clearly knows very little about the matter he's covering, however.