Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Hays Cooper is an American journalist, author, and television personality. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for breaking news stories. In addition he is a major correspondent for 60 Minutes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth3 June 1967
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.
Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever.
Hundreds of reporters, in all media, did heroic work on the Gulf Coast in the deadly storm's aftermath. None arguably was as financially and symbolically important to his company as the job turned in by Williams. It could solidify his spot as network news' top anchor.
There is elation at this moment. The news just coming a short time ago that the 12 miners are alive.
I don't feel like I'm doing anything different.
I can't imagine going back. I'm going to have to at some point, but I don't know what I'm going to do, I don't know.
I am listening to people's questions and getting answers. I am least of all interested in any TV anchor's opinion, and least of all my own.
You do what's in your gut- if you've been doing it long enough, what's in your gut will be appropriate.
There is nothing sadder to see people who lived a good decent life dead on the side of the road. I used to go overseas to report on that but now I'm doing it at home.
We talk to mothers holding babies, some of these babies three-, four-, five-months-old, living in horrible conditions.
I wouldn't call it looting. What I have seen is desperate people kind of wandering around here in downtown Gulfport. There are a lot of police here in Gulfport, so you can't get away with looting. But I have seen people picking stuff up from the wreckage. I saw a man with two bottles of olive oil. He was hoping to try to cook something up. He says he has no water. He doesn't really have much of a place to go. So there are a lot of people just desperately in need.
She's still out there. There are rats roaming around, and I wonder if no one knows who this woman is and where her family is.
I see the show. I don't see anything funny about it. It's just me with my family, at home,
This is going to be a difficult week ahead, for families watching at home and for first responders collecting the people and trying to restore them some dignity, ... There's not a lot of dignity to be had in these floodwaters.