I bust Anderson Coopers chops, but his show tonight is awesome.

[Neshanic]

He covered all the bases; the plight of the animals and those two angel volunteers, the police chief standing up to the asswipe town politician, the weather report warnings, and subsequent ignore by monkey boy.

This is the real deal watching Anderson referee a good hearted cop and a craven town manager.

[swimmernsecretsea]

1. I never thought about him before...

not because I hated him, but because it's difficult to get personally engaged in news personalities anymore. They're all talking-head newsreaders. But Anderson Cooper...talk about proving one's mettle. Isn't this how Dan Rather's career took off?

[halobeam]

4. I haven't let myself watched MSM often either because of the same reason,

but in seeing Cooper these past few weeks, I would watch his shows regularly if he keeps this up. I emailed CNN about him a few times already and also emailed Cooper, praising him. He's done an incredible job. I hope anyone who feels this way, shows their support of him to CNN heads, and emails Cooper himself as well. The ratings are what these corp. heads care about, so if we find someone who calls it like it is, we'd better fight the good fight, to keep him, IMO.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Yes

Last week he was on Bill Maher's show and you could see in his eyes he was a bit drained and also pissed off. Maher asked him where he was with Iraq but of course he towed the old line. "Oh everybody thought he had them, even ex-presidents" and this nonsense. I wanted to scream at him about that. If that was true we wouldn't be basically a lone there in Iraq eh? :eyes: Even Germany didn't believe in it and they believed Hitler! So really. Doy. Even Brian Williams has been doing okay with this. But I mostly don't watch MSM anymore either except every once in a while Keith Olbermann. Other than that I come here or watch the Daily Show.

[bobbieinok]

12. I think Rather got his national name b/c he was in Dallas 11-22-63

he was young and the CBS 'on the ground' reporter who got a career making story

he walked in the shoes of Walter Cronkhite

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. he dropped the corporate MSM crap and did his job. NO,

DOES his job. It is refreshing to see someone who is professional, thinking and independent.
What I really like is that he has fully recognized the shrub for what he is. and is not.

[Rick Myers]

3. In TV Week Tom Shayles this week suggested CBS take a

long look at Anderson Cooper!!! I think he's right!!!

[kath]

5. What's the story about the cop & the town mgr? - not familiar w/ this.

[Wizard777]

6. REAL American Journalism always is Awesome. It can't be beat. n/t

[Agnomen]

8. Anderson is doing a great job in New Orleans

I think what he witnessed there really touched him, as it has other journalists reporting from the flooded streets, such as Brian Williams. Now there's a changed man! I've always considered him a bit of a pretty-boy twinkie, but since he spent the first 24 hours of the hurricane at the superdome, and experienced the horrors first hand, and stayed on in NO, he's seething with anger with how the situation was mishandled. Seen him on The Daily Show last week - he was in a rage! This morning on Imus he said he's negotiating w. NBC to let him do the newscasts from NO at least 2 days a week far into the future, so that what happened there does not fade from public's consciousness.

[question everything]

9. Yes, the story about the animals was great.

He clearly has a soft spot for dogs, the other day was reporting on a dog adopted by a group of guards, or military, from Stillwater OK.

Was a wonderful story about the volunteer who came all the way from San Diego and is just going around wherever he hears noises and just leaves food and water, just to give them more leash on life until their owners, hopefully, will return. Especially since the shelters no longer take animals. Interesting, also, that the volunteers were told by the Humane Society (I think) not to come, but they did anyway.

[halobeam]

10. Thread deserves a kick ....

if you haven't, and want to, please contact CNN and/or A. Cooper. Positive feedback, if you are feeling it, is VERY important...

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

[tjdee]

11. At this point I think my replacement for Peter Jennings will be Anderson

Cooper.

I've liked him for a while, even before he roasted JimmyJeff GannonGuckert on his show...something about him I always liked (plus, as shallowly as this can be said, he's so very easy to look at, too.).

I've been watching his NO coverage when I can, and he seems thoughtful, human, humane...all the things people would like in their newsmen. He is saying that he's afraid people will forget Katrina, he's said it a couple of times.

I just hope that when Katrina is "over", he brings this same sort of quality to whatever else he covers.