The battle of the cable news networks rages on, and gets funnier and funnier by the minute. In this latest installment, a Fox News spokesperson has deliciously disparaged one of CNN’s biggest stars.Posted on 01/24/2007 12:12:00 PM PST by lowbridge
Posted by Noel Sheppard on January 24, 2007 - 12:58.
The battle of the cable news networks rages on, and gets funnier and funnier by the minute. In this latest installment, a Fox News spokesperson has deliciously disparaged one of CNN’s biggest stars.
As reported by the New York Times (emphasis mine throughout):
A Fox News spokeswoman, Irena Briganti, said CNN was mainly looking for publicity in attacking its higher-rated rival. Of Mr. Cooper’s comment, she said, “Yet another cry for attention by the Paris Hilton of television news, Anderson Cooper.”
What was this recent fracas about? You’ll never guess:
A disputed report on the Web site of a conservative magazine about Senator Barack Obama’s childhood schooling kicked off a pointed exchange this week between the rival cable news networks CNN and Fox News, when CNN seemed to make an overt effort both to debunk the report and to question the quality of Fox News’s journalism.
The original report, posted on the online version of Insight, a magazine owned by The Washington Times, said that as a child in Indonesia, Mr. Obama had attended a madrassa, a school that teaches a radical version of the Muslim faith. Mr. Obama, who spent a few years in Jakarta as a boy, is a Christian.
Adding to the political volatility of the report was the attribution of the news to “researchers connected to” Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Figures. Of course, the Clinton News Network never likes any bad press about the former first couple from Arkansas, and felt the need to defend Hillary’s honor:
In comments after Mr. Vause’s report, the CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper seemed to chide others for not practicing legitimate journalism on the story. “CNN did what any serious news organization is supposed to do in this kind of a situation,” Mr. Blitzer said. “We actually conducted an exclusive firsthand investigation inside Indonesia to check out the school.”
Mr. Cooper said: “That’s the difference between talking about news and reporting it. You send a reporter, check the facts, and you decide at home.”
This almost reads like a script from “Saturday Night Live,” doesn’t it? Of course, also comical is how the Times completely ignored Keith Olbermann’s involvement in the dispute as reported by NewsBusters here and here.
Have the Times’ editors finally realized how irrelevant this gross caricature of a newsman is? Stay tuned.
Now that's gonna leave a mark! Ouch!
Coop is definitely the more feminine of the two.
I think that although Anderson Cooper is what he is, the real primadonna and Paris Hilton of television news is without a doubt Keith Olbermann.
what an insult to Paris Hilton
/sarc
In any event, it is time to swiftboat Osama and get on to Hillary.
Let's just hope that Pooper doesn't think he's Britney Spears.
They travelled back in time 30 years? Cool!
-help-
Ugh. I hope Cooper at least wears underwear.
I'm laughing too. They think they're important! That's the real comedy here.
And I bet Olbermann has a closet full of Paris Hilton fashions to prove it!
0ne of these days, all the drugs and alcohol are going to catch up with old Paris Hilton....they always do....
Two points need to be clarified. 1. Osama Obama really did attend a muslim school, even if they didn't call it a "madrassa". 2. CNN is adopting the tactics of olberman, who tried to increase his ratings by directly attacking the higher (much higher) rated O'reilly every day. CNN is applying this desperation move to FOX because FOX has double theri ratings.
I caught wolf blitzer's crying and whining act on CNN yesterday, and it was truly pathetic.
The same CNN who shilled for Saddam Hussein, who won 99% of the vote in Iraq because he was so popular and such a nice guy?
And the same Anderson Cooper who was seen reportedly leaving Barney Frank's DC house wearing nothing but a kimono and bathroom slippers?
Hey, that's the word on the street. Maybe CNN should go send a reporter to investigate "first hand".
"serious news organization"
Is SNO the new MSM?
No matter...they're still just repeaters, not reporters.
Now, now...I'm pretty sure Anderson hasn't had a home-video porn scandal yet. (And believe me, that's a good thing.)
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