...by reporting unique facts and providing distinct insights that could not be found elsewhere. Their trademark was truth, and they were averse to bias and ideology. One modern-day example of this type of journalist is Anderson Cooper. Stewart does not belong in this group because he is a satirist; his function is to examine the political process rather than shape it, and he conducts these examinations through the medium of comedy. Murrow and Cronk...
In July 2009, President Barack Obama made his first presidential visit to sub-Saharan Africa and took his wife and daughters to the Cape Coast Castle, a ghostly whitewashed fort in Ghana that was used to hold and ship Africans to the Americas during the time of the Atlantic slave trade. In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Obama compared visiting Cape Coast to visiting Birkenau: “The experience of slavery is like the experience of the Holocaust...
...ny autocrats are pushed out of power. The number of journalists attacked in protest zones continues to rise – and the violence continues to escalate. In the beginning Christiane Amanpour got her window smashed in and Anderson Cooper got hit in the head. Some people made jokes about his poor, pretty face getting messed up. Then word got out that the government was sanctioning Egyptian security forces to journalists. Things got a little scarier. By...
...ke a con. Viewers have always seen Don as the talented, hardworking man who worked his was up to creative director. But this season we learn that Don had exploited Roger Sterling’s alcoholism to secure a job at Sterling Cooper. Showing up at the SC building after Roger dismissed his ad portfolio, he thanks Sterling for the opportunity while Sterling tries to recover his botched memory. The scene closes on a shot of Don, smiling the goofiest...
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