With his taste for on-site reporting, Cooper embodies a new style of advocacy journalism. His electrifying coverage of post-Hurricane KatrinaNew Orleans lifted him to National prominence. In July 2007, COOPER moderated the first presidential debate using YouTube technology.
In an infamous, liveexchange with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Cooperrose instantly to National prominence when he emotionally interjected "Excuse me...to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other....there are a lot of people here who are very upset and very angry....It Just, you know, kind of cuts them the wrong way right now, because literally there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman had been laying in the street for 48 hours."
CNN President on Anderson Cooper's Appeal: CNN/US President Jon Kleinsays of Cooper, "He's got a refreshing way of being the anti-anchor. He's not quote-unquote reporting at you. He's Just being himself. He's asking the questions you would like answered. He's getting involved the way you might. You feel that he's a regular person that you can trust talking to you. He brings such a passion to the storytelling that's infectious."
Though born into wealth, the teenage Cooper worked summers as a waiter. He pursued his first job, at age 11, as a Ford model because he "wanted to...be financially independent." COOPER's older brother (by two years) committed suicide in 1988 by jumping from Vanderbilt's 14th floor apartment in New York. Before then, Anderson was on track at Yale to enter foreign diplomatic service. After his brother's death, he took a year off, then pursued a job in TV. Anderson Cooper is mildly dyslexic.
Said producer David Perozzi, who worked with Cooper at ABC News, "He's really intense. He could care less how he looks, his hair and makeup. If there's no cameraperson, he grabs the camera....He's all human. He's not putting it on."
Memorable Quotes:
"To me, there is value in bearing witness to what is happening to people who are living their lives with great dignity in the face of horror. People have asked me why I would want to go to Iraq. To me, it's a privilege to be able to do that."
The "National First Ladies' Library and Museum"... Just another example of pure government waste? We're keeping them honest.
Doctors playing judges?
Medicine and Morality: Should doctors be allowed to refuse patient's treatment if it conflicts with their religious beliefs?
Captured, Then Tortured:
A shocking story of abuse Washington wanted to keep secret! A husband takes an Americanflighthome to his wife -- but never makes it there. You won't believe why. Tonight, 10 ET.
CNN takes viewers around the world in a two-part, four-hour documentary that examines our changing planet. This worldwide investigation, which premiered October 23, looks at four key issues: climate change, vanishing habitats, disappearing species and human population growth. To tell this story, Anderson Cooper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and biologist Jeff Corwin traveled to some of the most remote and remarkable places on Earth.
Anderson Cooper has been a globetrotting reporter for more than 15 years. "Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival," a "New York Times" best seller, is his account of the people he's met, the things he's seen and the lessons he's learned in the midst of devastation. Woven into the narrative is Anderson's struggle to understand his own family's personal tragedies. The paperback version came out May 8.
You've
seen the images, you've heard the accounts. But that's not the whole
story. Don't miss CNN prime-time event: "Eyewitness to Murder: The MLK
Assassination." Saturday & Sunday, 8 p.m. ET
360 tonight: Shudders in th... Apr 06, 2008 00:45:39 Good afternoon, friends… How will the newest economic data play in the presidential race?
The unemployment rate shot up to 5.1% last month from 4.8%. That’s a
big jump, and the highest rate since 2005. The economy lost 80,000
jobs–the most in a...
Your questions… On our economy Apr 06, 2008 00:45:05
We want your questions on our economy. We’ll explore them in an upcoming AC360° special.
Have you ever wondered what the economy has to d...
Tony Perkins: Martin Luther... Apr 06, 2008 00:25:26
Forty years ago, an assassin gunned down a spirited visionary whose
days were spent crusading against the very violence and bigotry that
ultima...
Restore the dream Apr 06, 2008 00:24:29
Forty years ago today Martin Luther King was shot and killed. I was
just a baby, but everything about that day informed my childhood. I
was...
; "Anderson Cooper")
button beside categories below to add/edit content
