The 1st Thread For 7/23/10: Anderson Cooper-The Embodiment Of The Lazy Sad State Of News Reporting
CNN's primetime host thought he was hitting all the rights notes (because that's what they always think at that network, no matter how cookie cutter and disturbing recalcitrant they have become over the years to real political reporting) in this screed last night. From 50 seconds on, it was a total trainwreck, made a disaster by Cooper and his network's truest downfall: "False equivalency disease." We all know and exasperate when we see that full sad condition time and time again, pushed by every strategist and politician on the nutty party's side, from the asylum unit throughout Capital Hill to "Take any order" slime snakes like Ron Christe always on the "The Ed Show" whenever, wherever. That disease however is worse on Time Warner's beloved news channel, exhibited fully by their 10 PM darling last evening. In his (of all the titles in the world) "Should Be About The Truth" commentary moment, Cooper didn't care a...