Reply #117: For some reason I stayed up and watched Cooper... [View All]

saw the man run up and tell Cooper the miners were alive and saw the woman and her two kids run up and tell him they were'nt a couple hours later. This, to my mind, exposes the major flaw in Cooper's personally-involved-throw-skepticism-to-the-wind reporting, he should have kept checking. It also reminds me of how extreme the reporting on NOLA got and how a lot of the criminal acts supposedly committed in the Superdome and Convention Center were baseless rumors. True, the company should have had a liaison with the families and the press, but, this does'nt excuse the press from not saying we're still checking because these are still rumors. Cooper needs to cultivate some detachment. As for Rita, well, she could've stayed at her anchor desk in Secaucus. She spoke to a lot of people via the phone and her presence at the minesite brought nothing to the story.


:loveya: KO, I knew you'd devote tonight's show to the tv and press coverage of this tragedy. (And, if anybody disses you because you don't do on site reporting, send 'em to me. I'll set 'em straight!)