...and Aaron Brown didn't do the same thing? He lead a team in Sri Lanka. This is pure discrimination !

CNN's Cooper relishes new role

On vacation last week, CNN's Anderson Cooper flew to Oaxaca, Mexico, to attend the Day of The Dead festival, where families go to local cemeteries with food and drink to "welcome back all the souls who have departed."

... "It's been a remarkable year and a terrible year, and I've learned a lot and I've seen a lot," Cooper says. "It started literally from the ball drop at Times Square, where I was, and four hours later I was on a plane to Sri Lanka for the tsunami. I was in Niger for the starvation of children, and that was tough. And then Katrina was overwhelming."

THE DAY OF THE DEAD.

FINE.

COOPER'S GOT AN AFFECTION FOR NECROPHILIA.

There is a highly pervasive underpinning to all this 'shows.' It isn't news. It's sensationalized killing and dying as well as disease. It's not a healthy balance of anything.

Fickle CNN slouches to the right
Commentary: Plus Lewis' shame and Iger-Jobs

...At CNN, Headline News is considered to be a diamond in the (very) rough. Because it spews breaking news all the time (when, of course, it isn't showing some airhead Hollywood-gossip nonsense), the station frees up CNN to show prime-time "programs," starring the likes of Anderson Cooper, Paula Zahn and Aaron Br -- oops! Aaron Brown was terminated last year. Maybe I'm just projecting my readers' wishes that his show was still on CNN

... CNN shouldn't be running a news supermarket. It should stand for something -- anything. Not only would it be a better network, but the morale of its beleaguered troops would go up. Pssst -- so might those precious ratings.