FNC VS CNN (PARIS HILTON)

[drink the koolaid]

"Meet the Paris Hilton of Television News"
The hosts of Fox & Friends served as a useful marketing tool for FNC this morning, repeatedly talking about this new trade magazine ad slamming Anderson Cooper.

(Cooper, as you recall, taught FNC about journalism last week.)

Fox responded by calling Cooper "the Paris Hilton of television news." And now the network is emphasizing the analogy with a big print ad

"Meet the Paris Hilton of television news," the ad says. "Who could that possibly be? Guy with great hair," Steve Doocy "asked."
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This seems pretty sad. Why would a news organization act so petty?

[ January 29, 2007, 07:05 PM: Message edited by: drink the koolaid ]

[AstroDiaper]

This seems like a ploy to deflect attention away from the Fox News/Obama story. Fox News lied and got busted, so now they're going in to attack mode.

John Moody, the suit in charge of editorial decisions, should be fired

[2:30]

As bad as Cooper is (and that's bad), FNC is worse.

[Kace]

Steve Doocy is one of the last people on Earth who should be able to criticize anyone in cable news.

[Eeps Snorps Now]

This seems pretty sad. Why would a news organization act so petty?[/QB]Well, for starters, FNC is a petty news organization.

[ January 30, 2007, 06:40 PM: Message edited by: Gravefully Sinful ]

[Number2]

Well, you have to admit Fox does have a point. Few people in the last 10 or 20 years of cable news have received as much hype and as much press as Anderson Cooper, despite never having really done anything to deserve that hype and never having anything more than a moderately sized audience.

[Diplomat]

Cooper, like any other "star" of TV news, gets a lot of hype. I like some of his work.

I never got all the hype about Aaron Brown being "thoughtful" or "witty" or "clever" on his CNN show. He always came across as dull, patronizing and like the guy who makes inside jokes that only he gets and thinks he's smarter than everyone else when he really isn't.

[Produce man]

Originally posted by Number2:
Well, you have to admit Fox does have a point. Few people in the last 10 or 20 years of cable news have received as much hype and as much press as Anderson CooperHe's Gloria Vanderbilt's son. Is there any need for further explanation?

And here's one to floor you libs...I hate Fox and Friends. All they do is tell me what their take on the news is. I don't give a sh!t what THEY think. Just shut up and read the script.

[Head Janitor]

Originally posted by Number2:
Well, you have to admit Fox does have a point. Few people in the last 10 or 20 years of cable news have received as much hype and as much press as Anderson Cooper, despite never having really done anything to deserve that hype and never having anything more than a moderately sized audience.Anderson Cooper anchors Anderson Cooper 360°, an unconventional, wide-ranging news program airing on CNN/U.S. weekdays. Cooper, who joined CNN in December 2001, served as CNN's weekend anchor before moving to prime time in March 2003 following the war in Iraq and then to a two-hour, late evening timeslot in November 2005 following Hurricane Katrina.

From his CNN Bio:

Since joining CNN, Cooper has anchored major breaking news stories, most recently the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast. He traveled to Sri Lanka to cover the tsunami and was in Baghdad for the Iraqi elections. Cooper also anchored much of CNN's live coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican City as well as the Terri Schiavo story in Florida. For "America Votes 2004," he moderated a Democratic presidential candidates forum the network sponsored with Rock the Vote.

In addition to reporting for CNN, Cooper also provides reports for CBS's 60 Minutes. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper's memoirs about covering the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and other news events, recently topped the New York Times Bestsellers List and other bestseller charts.

Before joining CNN, Cooper was an ABC News correspondent and host of the network's reality program, The Mole. Cooper anchored ABC's live, interactive news and interview program, World News Now, as well as providing reports for World News Tonight, 20/20 and 20/20 Downtown. Previously, he was a New York-based correspondent for ABC News, reporting primarily for World News Saturday/Sunday.

Cooper joined ABC from Channel One News, where he served as chief international correspondent. During that time, he reported and produced stories from Bosnia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa and Vietnam. He also reported national stories that were broadcast over the Channel One News school television network and seen in more than 12,000 classrooms nationwide.

Cooper and Anderson Cooper 360° have won several awards, most recently three Emmy awards in 2006 for reports about famine in Niger, Charity Hospital in New Orleans and black market infertility. Cooper has also earned a National Headliners Award for his tsunami coverage, an Emmy Award for his contribution to ABC's coverage of Princess Diana's funeral; a Silver Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival for his report from Sarajevo on the Bosnian civil war; a Bronze Telly for his coverage of famine in Somalia; a Bronze Award from the National Educational Film and Video Festival for a report on political Islam; and a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism for his 20/20 Downtown report on high school athlete Corey Johnson.

Cooper graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a bachelor of arts degree in political science. He also studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi. Cooper is based in New York City.


Draw your own conclusions, but looking at this bio, I don't see a problem with his credentials or the amount of attention he gets.

Then again, I don't get a chance to watch his program.

[ February 02, 2007, 04:38 PM: Message edited by: Head Janitor ]

[Produce man]

"host of the network's reality program, The Mole."

Liberals, remember this the next time you try to discredit Bill O'Reilly for hosting Inside Edition.

[Mr. Pratfall]

I don't think Anderson Cooper should have been on the Mole. Julie Chen should have stayed away from Big Brother (although her news credentials were shaky before that).

O'Reilly has far greater problems than his involvement with Inside Edition.

[Diplomat]

Bill O'Reilly offers analysis and often, allows voices to be heard that might not otherwise be heard. I've seen stories on his program that might have been buried or ignored elsewhere.

Doesn't sound like a problem to me.

If you don't like his show, don't watch. But don't come to my house and try to tell me I can't watch it.

[Mr. Pratfall]

Trust me, I don't watch.

[Diplomat]

Fine. You're free not to watch.

I'm free not to watch or read stuff I don't want to watch, either.

Bill Moyers, Kitty Kelley, David Gregory, Helen Thomas and other smear-types are persona non grata in our house.

It's called making an individual choice.

[2:30]

Cooper's a pathetic joke. Did you see him posing at the tornado sites today?

It's stomach turning.

[Head Janitor]

Originally posted by Produce man:
"host of the network's reality program, The Mole."

Liberals, remember this the next time you try to discredit Bill O'Reilly for hosting Inside Edition.Here is a little history lesson for you. Both Hugh Downs and Mike Wallace were also game show hosts before making it big in news. I'm not comparing Cooper to either of them, just giving you something to think about.

And in my opinion, hosting a game show is much more honest than being the talking head of a tabloid news show. But that's just my opinion.

[Michigan J. Frog]

FNC sure devotes a lot of time talking about other cable news operations and running ads and billboards about them. How about if they just cover the news?

[ February 03, 2007, 03:20 PM: Message edited by: Michigan J. Frog ]

[AVandalay]

Anderson isn't a reporter or a journalist -- he's an emoter. Instead of telling you what happened, he tells you how he feels about what happened.