Temptation Took Ahold of Me and I Fell
Aug 29th, 2005 at 8:52 am by Susie
From Baton Rouge, CNN’s Anderson Cooper is doing that standing-outside-in-the-hurricane thing, and he’s pointing out that this Mississippi River barge is starting to slam into the bridge where he’s standing, and that the crane on it is starting to swing around at random.
And I had this moment - just a moment - when I really wished it would hit him. But then I felt bad, and the moment passed.
Stop. leave anderson alone. He does not drink freely from the tub of cool aid. Anderson is the only reporter who has been to Africa in years. Andrea Mitchel went and her reporting was all about her. She was unable to even get close up of pictures of those incharge of the genocide.
The new look of your site is great.
I have nothing against Anderson Cooper - it’s the ritual of having newspeople stand outside in major storms that’s so goddamned stupid. It will take a live decapitation to make them stop. (Or maybe not.)
I was listening to NPR on my morning commute, and I was repeating like a mantra that “they’re too smart to have a reporter in the evacuated area” until they cut to somebody on the scene and my husband switched the radio off in disgust.
I realize it’s more dramatic to have somebody , but doesn’t this make more problems for the rescue workers?
In NPR’s case, it did sound like the reporter was phoning it in from one of the highrise shelters, but still, do the news crews take valuable space away from the residents who need shelter?
*Sigh* My sympathies and best wishes go out to those in the storm, and I find myself very glad I had the opportunity to visit New Orleans a few years back.