I like Anderson Cooper. However I didn’t like his coverage of violence in Chicago. He seemed to be on a mission to create the impression that Chicago is nothing but a violent city.
As Eric Holder said, this is not Chicago’s problem, this is an American problem. When you combine poverty, low income, poor housing and, limited resources, drugs, alcohol, and gangs, you’ve got trouble. The fact is these communities need what every modestly safe, healthy community needs: families that are stable, schools where parents and teachers work together to help the kids succeed, jobs with good salaries and benefits, advocates, and a healthy tax base to provide community programs.
When so many people are fighting for limited resources, it’s every man for himself. Hey Anderson, you’ve been around as long as Mayor Daley, yet where were you? This death is not unique other than it was captured on video. What is unique is that the media finally took some time out of its endless coverage of Michael Jackson, to notice.
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I didn’t see this one, Dad, but I did see Cooper stirring the pot on another issue the other night and I was so upset I actually wrote to him. Did I think he’d read it? No. Of course not. But I couldn’t stand by and say nothing.
He was interviewing someone, asking about the Obama presidency. All I remember is that he was fishing for a sense of what people were saying.
“Is there a growing sense that this president is spineless?” he asked.
Talk about an insulting, leading question!
Cooper, who I’d liked pretty well until that point, lost me for good.
That’s not journalism – that’s muckraking. There’s enough of that already.
Susan-you summarized what I was trying to say better than I could, “insulting, leading questions.” It really did seem like he was trying to make news rather than deal with the story that was actually there.