Did anyone else see Anderson Cooper helping out that kid who got hit on the

[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.

[Skittles]

1. I like Anderson

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

[njlib]

2. I've been watching since he came on at 10:00

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.

[applegrove]

3. Yup. I think unrest is only going to get worse. I'm so afraid for those people in Haiti.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Shows Anderson is human.....?

that's good.

[elleng]

8. We've known that AT LEAST since Katrina.

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!)

[njlib]

10. Kerry Sanders on MSNBC/NBC

is doing a good job, too. He also seemed to be very frustrated and angry, from what I saw over the weekend.

[Parker CA]

5. He's getting very angry at the situation there. It's real emotion. Carrying that bleeding

boy to safety earlier amidst the chaos that was unfolding around him was pretty bold and a very admirable move.

[IndianaGreen]

6. I saw that. It was very dramatic and disturbing.

Things are getting worse, not better in Haiti.

[Kdillard]

7. Scary. Good for Anderson Cooper.

[Colobo]

9. Anderson and Gupta are top notch.

[Zoeisright]

11. Taking food and water to survive is NOT looting.

It's survival. I'm so sick of that misstatement.

[Hestia]

17. Thank you - if you haven't eaten for days, your survival skills would set in and you would

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.

[alsame]

19. Absolutely. nt

[boppers]

12. Anderson and Gupta are reporting...

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.

[Mimosa]

13. I've been watching all the time. Agree he is strong in many ways.

Saw the Anderson/Sanjay discussion too.

Those two are amazingly physically fit or else they couldn't endure the way they are.

[Sienna86]

14. Glad both are there

They are reporters with a conscience. And Anderson Cooper definitely works out and is in great shape.

[niceypoo]

15. The story of how he ended up on CNN is fascinating

He would fashion fake press credentials and go into war zones and file independent news stories. He has no background in journalism.

[lunatica]

16. I imagine lots and lots of reporters do kind things when the cameras are off

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.

[Myrina]

18. He is also going to be on George Clooney's telethon this week ...

...seems like Katrina really knocked some empathy loose in him and he cares a whole lot more than the other talking heads on tv.