Unprecedented - THREE times I've written CNN to praise

[Kenroy]

today. It's unprecedented. Kyra Phillips, Jack Cafferty, and now Anderson Cooper.

I can't believe how good CNN's coverage of this is. The other nets don't even compare.

And today they're showing the anger and frustration we ALL feel.

[Raster]

1. Maybe CNN is back to being what made them great. Maybe the

"C" doesn't stand for "Corporate" any longer.

[achtung_circus]

2. What about Jean Meserve?

She mad me cry, although that's easy these days.

Her voice was painful with the emotion.

[Kenroy]

6. yes

she did a phenomenal job the other night. It was one of the pieces of reporting I'd ever heard.

[longship]

14. Jean's always been a good one.

She's not always had the prime focus, but I've always liked her.

The question is, in this disaster, who will become CNN's next Christiane Amanpour (who is the top of the CNN heap as far as I'm concerned)?

[alittlelark]

3. The station is based in Atlanta GA - they are seeing the effects

much more (gas $$$, ppl getting nuts).

I am astounded to say that CNN is actually doing a good job.

[iconoclastNYC]

4. How do you contact CNN? n/t

[Kenroy]

go here..

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv/

[BlueJac]

5. Unusal but refreshing

Jack, and Anderson have been awesome today.

[tedoll78]

7. I was thinking the same thing!

Weird. I'm actually thankful for CNN right now.

[mshasta]

8. me too and seeing my self watching. CNN ....

can believe my ears...!!!!!!!!

[VIHMH5L50P]

9. TOTALLY AGREE!

Anderson Cooper has been amazing, will start a separate thread on his interview of Mary Landrieux, he nailed her bad.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

10. e-mail to cnn

I have had cable turned back on because I've heard that your coverage is outstanding on Katrina, with real
journalistic ethics at the forefront.

Thank you for returning the 4th estate
back to 'We the People"

[teach1st]

11. The power of an unrestrained media

The media is doing its job in this tragedy. We hear government officials tell us how great their efforts are, how much food and water has been mobilized, how many troops are in the area, but the media provides us with another view, certainly much closer to the truth, in which citizens are without food and water for days. Reporters are expressing their outrage. Citizens are getting the message.

Contrasted to Iraq, where the media was controlled and massaged and where a true picture of the devastation and the governmental misteps rarely reached mainstream America, this tragedy in our Gulf states happened too fast and got too wild, and the government can't control what the media reports. We're seeing real reporting now. We're seeing reporters actually reporting instead of parroting some partisan talking points, evolving into advocates for truth, transformed by their own reporting experiences.

[Individualist]

12. I had avoided CNN after the selection,

but now that they're doing factual reporting, I'm watching again.

[wli]

13. maybe the psyops officers had to go back to Ft. Bragg n/t