Lindaland
  Global Unity
  Anderson Cooper 360

Post New Topic  Post A Reply
profile | register | preferences | faq | search

UBBFriend: Email This Page to Someone! next newest topic | next oldest topic
Author Topic:   Anderson Cooper 360
Nephthys
Knowflake

Posts: 941
From: California
Registered: Apr 2009

posted November 05, 2006 08:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Nephthys     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi. I'm writing a report on Anderson Cooper for my Poli Sci class, and I have to write a paragraph on *how the public percieves him*.

If you would like to give your opinion of him, that would really help me out. Thanks.

Can you rely on him to provide you with factual information? Do you find him accurate and reliable? Do you agree or disagree with his viewpoints?

IP: Logged

DayDreamer
unregistered
posted November 05, 2006 08:10 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Can you rely on him to provide you with factual information?

It's hard to take him seriously because he appears like he has a sly and cocky grin or look in his eye when he's giving the news...like there could be some biases to his reporting...or that he's too smart for his position. Does he dye his hair white-grey? He was also the host of a reality tv show a few years ago...though I dont hold that against him...there's another journalist on cbs, i think, who used to be a much music vj.

quote:
Do you find him accurate and reliable?

As accurate and reliable as any other news anchor/journalist.

quote:
Do you agree or disagree with his viewpoints?

I dont know enough about his viewpoints to say whether I agree/disagree or what I agree or disagree with.

IP: Logged

Nephthys
Knowflake

Posts: 941
From: California
Registered: Apr 2009

posted November 05, 2006 08:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Nephthys     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nope, since I did his Bio I know that he greyed early - in his 20's!! He is actually only in his late 30's, I am actually older than him, and funny, I thought he was much older than me!

Yep, you are correct, he is biased in his reporting. ALL talking heads are. (That's a big part of my paper, I have to write his biases.)

Thanks for your response!

IP: Logged

DayDreamer
unregistered
posted November 05, 2006 08:38 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Good to hear he's not dying his hair to try to look more mature...I hear that's a fad among some men.

No prob. Good luck with your paper

IP: Logged

Mirandee
unregistered
posted November 05, 2006 10:22 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What I know of Anderson Cooper is that he is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt. Grew up wealthy. He had a brother who died in some kind of accident or who committed suicide. Can't remember which it was.

I liked his commentary and the way he reported the New Orleans hurricane Katrina aftermath. He seemed to show a lot of compassion in his reporting. Can't say whether or not that was faked.

I think he is like most news reporters today, he doesn't really ask the tough or unpopular questions and he doesn't dig beneath the surface for the truth of a story.

Don't know if he is biased or not for that reason. I think he just reports what the corporation that owns CNN allows him to report.

IP: Logged

jwhop
Knowflake

Posts: 2787
From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009

posted November 06, 2006 01:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I stopped watching CNN on any regular basis when CNN became an adjunct arm and official cheerleader for the Clinton Administration.

I stopped watching CNN altogether when the news broke that Eason Jordan, Chief News Executive at CNN News had for 12 years spiked stories of Saddam Hussein's brutality, murders, torture and terrorist activities to curry favor with Saddam.

Based on a single event, and the only thing I know about Cooper is that Anderson Cooper would seem to be a breath of fresh air at CNN. Cooper penetrated and exposed the staged propaganda events Hezbollah laid on for the news media in Lebanon while other reporters watched the charade and reported the propaganda as straight news stories when they weren't.

I don't know if this will be helpful but this is an account of Anderson Coopers reporting on this subject. One other thing, I read somewhere that Cooper had trained for a time with the CIA. Perhaps the CIA has now penetrated CNN News

CNN's Anderson Cooper Exposes Hezbollah's Media Manipulations
Posted by Rich Noyes on July 25, 2006 - 16:54.


On Monday’s "Anderson Cooper 360," CNN’s Anderson Cooper related his visit to a Hezbollah-controlled section of Beirut where he was supposed to photograph certain damaged buildings, part of the terrorist group’s strategy of generating news stories about Lebanese civilian casualities caused by Israeli bombs.

But instead of merely transmitting Hezbollah’s unverified and unverifiable claims to the outside world, Cooper — to his credit — exposed the efforts by Hezbollah to manipulate CNN and other Western reporters. It’s quite a contrast from the much more accommodating approach taken by his colleague, Nic Robertson, in a report that aired on a variety of CNN programs (including AC360) back on July 18, a report that Robertson himself has now conceded was put together under Hezbollah's control.

Unlike Robertson, Cooper was explicit about how Hezbollah’s operatives had set all of the rules: “Young men on motor scooters followed our every movement. They only allowed us to videotape certain streets, certain buildings,” he explained. He countered Hezbollah claims that Israel targets civilians by pointing out that the group based itself in civilian areas and that Israel's air force drops leaflets warning of attacks.

Cooper exposed for CNN viewers that the sight of speeding ambulances, sirens blaring, was just a phony play staged by Hezbollah: “One by one, they’ve been told to turn on their sirens and zoom off so that all the photographers here can get shots of ambulances rushing off to treat civilians....These ambulances aren’t responding to any new bombings. The sirens are strictly for effect.”

CNN showed cameramen from other news organizations dutifully photographing the ambulances as they went by.

Cooper had left Lebanon and was stationed in Haifa, Israel for Monday’s broadcast. His report on his trip “Inside Hezbollah” appeared at about 10:40pm EDT Monday (6:40am Tuesday, local time), the first hour of his two-hour program.

“We'd come to get a look at the damage and had hoped to talk with a Hezbollah representative. Instead, we found ourselves with other foreign reporters taken on a guided tour by Hezbollah. Young men on motor scooters followed our every movement. They only allowed us to videotape certain streets, certain buildings. Once, when they thought we'd videotaped them, they asked us to erase the tape. These men are called al-Shabab, Hezbollah volunteers who are the organization's eyes and ears.”

Gesturing to racks of music CDs in a building that had lost at least one of its walls, Cooper remarked, “You see their CDs on the wall still.”

He continued: “Hezbollah representatives are with us now but don't want to be photographed. They'll point to something like that and they'll say, ‘Well, look, this is a store.’ The civilians lived in this building. This is a residential complex.

“And while that may be true, what the Israelis will say is that Hezbollah has their offices, their leadership has offices and bunkers even in residential neighborhoods. And if you're trying to knock out the Hezbollah leadership with air strikes, it's very difficult to do that without killing civilians.

“As bad as this damage is, it certainly could have been much worse in terms of civilian casualties. Before they started heavily bombing this area, Israeli warplanes did drop leaflets in this area, telling people to get out. The civilian death toll, though, has angered many Lebanese. Even those who do not support Hezbollah are outraged by the pictures they've seen on television of civilian casualties.”

As the video showed a group reporters and photographers interviewing a single woman on a blanket, Cooper explained, “Civilian casualties are clearly what Hezbollah wants foreign reporters to focus on. It keeps the attention off them — and questions about why Hezbollah should still be allowed to have weapons when all the other militias in Lebanon have already disarmed.

“After letting us take pictures of a few damaged buildings, they take us to another location, where there are ambulances waiting.

“This is a heavily orchestrated Hezbollah media event. When we got here, all the ambulances were lined up. We were allowed a few minutes to talk to the ambulance drivers. Then one by one, they've been told to turn on their sirens and zoom off so that all the photographers here can get shots of ambulances rushing off to treat civilians. That's the story that Hezbollah wants people to know about.

“These ambulances aren't responding to any new bombings. The sirens are strictly for effect.”

Cooper concluded: “Hezbollah may not be terribly subtle about spinning a story, but it is telling perhaps that they try. Even after all this bombing, Hezbollah is still organized enough to have a public relations strategy, still in control enough to try and get its message out.”
http://newsbusters.org/node/6574

IP: Logged

and
unregistered
posted November 06, 2006 01:27 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
oh yeah, Israel is devoid of propaganda tactics when cameras are around
....give me a break...

------------------
"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"-Khalil Gibran

"The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me."-- Oscar Wilde-- "De Profundis"

IP: Logged

AcousticGod
Knowflake

Posts: 4415
From: Pleasanton, CA
Registered: Apr 2009

posted November 06, 2006 01:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My impression:

He's always looked young. I never doubted that he greyed early. Some people just do that (Steve Martin for instance).

I've looked in to him enough to know that he's very well educated. I believe he takes his job seriously. I've seen him interviewed, and been a little surprised that he actually is fairly dry while not doing the news as well.

I don't know about his personal views, but I like that he uses Iggy Pop's "The Passenger" as the music to his show, or did back when I used to watch it.

IP: Logged

Nephthys
Knowflake

Posts: 941
From: California
Registered: Apr 2009

posted November 06, 2006 04:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Nephthys     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yep, I've included everything you guys mentioned in my paper. Yep ~ Vanderbilt, CIA, Hezbollah exposed, etc.

Your perspectives/opinions are great! Thanks, guys!

IP: Logged

Nephthys
Knowflake

Posts: 941
From: California
Registered: Apr 2009

posted November 09, 2006 08:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Nephthys     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
*bumping* for more replies

IP: Logged

All times are Eastern Standard Time

next newest topic | next oldest topic

Administrative Options: Close Topic | Archive/Move | Delete Topic
Post New Topic  Post A Reply
Hop to:

Contact Us | Linda-Goodman.com

Copyright © 2011

Powered by Infopop www.infopop.com © 2000
Ultimate Bulletin Board 5.46a