The sight of Anderson Cooper blithely sitting on a pile of rubble in Haiti reporting on rescue efforts going on not two feet behind him turns my stomach.
Try that in this country, Andy, and somebody's liable to come upside your head with a brick. And deservedly so.
Yes, it's a disaster of monumental proportions and the networks need to, in their words, put a human face on it. But, just because you can get up close and personal because there are no authorities around to bust you for it doesn't mean you always need to do the casual campfire squat next to people working their ass off, or shove the lens of your camera literally into the face of a grieving father who has lost his family.
Good reporting is necessary but Haiti is a disaster, not a photo op. Cover it, don't lampoon it with silly live shots. A hand waving for help from under the ruins of a building tells the story so much better than anything that Andy Cooper can possibly say or do.
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