January 05, 2005

Anderson Cooper in Sri Lanka

Anderson Cooper has been a stand-out in the tsumani coverage on television. His is a calming presence, sincere and understated. Like the excellent ITN reporter Dan Rivers, whose reports have been on The NewsHour, Cooper's reportage has avoided adjectives, especially comparatives, and reported with nouns and verbs (not gerunds - so take that, NBC and Fox!). Now if only CBS would hire Cooper to replace Dan Rather.....

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