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
We heard church bells ringing. We heard people yelling, screaming, clapping. A friend of one of the miners came over, crying, to tell us that he had heard and just been told in the church that 12 of them (miners) had been found alive.
I'm probably the oldest 38-year-old I know - sort of a grumpy old man.
I questioned some of the things I saw, such things as leaving inmates in their cell with no clothes or in female underpants, handcuffing them to the door of their cell. And the answer I got was, this is how the military intelligence wants it done.
I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get bitch-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?
In hindsight, you think, yeah there are things you could have done. But at the time we had multiple sources telling us the information and we had people in positions of authority ... telling us the information was correct. When you have officials telling you something and eyewitnesses telling you something, at some point you have to rely on that information.
Does the federal government bear responsibility for what is happening now? ... Should they apologize for what is happening now?
That is incredible news. Again, if this turns out to be true... we have not been able to independently confirm this... but the family members have been told... that the 12 miners are alive.
These people deserve to have the world watching what is happening to them,
Their salt-and-pepper figurines that they had collected were sitting on the shelf untouched.
There's a value to bearing witness to what hundreds of thousands of people are going through. I see nothing wrong with a reporter going through it with them. I've never pretended to grab onto something. The audience knows when something's real and when it's not.
It's not happening, they're nowhere near the airport.
I'm not showing tight shots of rotting corpses. We've tried to be respectful. We don't want anyone to find out on television that their family is dead.
I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.
I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.