Cooper speaks of experience
Alex Lanis
Issue date: 3/10/08 Section: News
Since then, Cooper has worked with networks such as CNN and ABC as a correspondent and anchor, and was also the host of the television show "The Mole" for two seasons.
"Eight years ago I decided to do a reality show, if that tells you anything about my judgment," he said.
The anchor was asked many political questions at the lecture, but he didn't always have an answer.
"I really can't answer that," he said. "If Obama or Clinton were here, they would love to take shots at it, but I feel that that isn't my job. I tell people facts - it is up to my audience to make what they want out of those facts."
Anderson Cooper was the moderator at the CNN/YouTube presidential debates, which he discussed during the events.
"They're all staring at you, waiting on you to call on them," he said of the presidential candidates. "You end up not being able to look at them, because if you make eye contact, they stare at you with daggers of death."
He also talked about why events such as the conflict in Darfur and the war in the Republic of Congo haven't received much press coverage.
Those areas, he said, are very difficult to get to, so most of the news is by word of mouth.
"I know it is overused, but if there was hell on Earth, it would be in the Congo," Cooper said.
He described the wars as the most deadly since World War II, but because they are in such remote locations, and because so many governments and businesses make money off the resources in the Congo, they will continue to be ill-reported.
"We all carry a part of the Congo with us," he said, from the tin in cell phones to diamonds in wedding rings.
"We are quite capable of anything," he said. "I see it everywhere I go."
"Eight years ago I decided to do a reality show, if that tells you anything about my judgment," he said.
The anchor was asked many political questions at the lecture, but he didn't always have an answer.
"I really can't answer that," he said. "If Obama or Clinton were here, they would love to take shots at it, but I feel that that isn't my job. I tell people facts - it is up to my audience to make what they want out of those facts."
Anderson Cooper was the moderator at the CNN/YouTube presidential debates, which he discussed during the events.
"They're all staring at you, waiting on you to call on them," he said of the presidential candidates. "You end up not being able to look at them, because if you make eye contact, they stare at you with daggers of death."
He also talked about why events such as the conflict in Darfur and the war in the Republic of Congo haven't received much press coverage.
Those areas, he said, are very difficult to get to, so most of the news is by word of mouth.
"I know it is overused, but if there was hell on Earth, it would be in the Congo," Cooper said.
He described the wars as the most deadly since World War II, but because they are in such remote locations, and because so many governments and businesses make money off the resources in the Congo, they will continue to be ill-reported.
"We all carry a part of the Congo with us," he said, from the tin in cell phones to diamonds in wedding rings.
"We are quite capable of anything," he said. "I see it everywhere I go."
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