Honestly, people. I haven’t watched 60 minutes in 30 years, but a simple Google search will bring you to the 60 Minutes homepage, where you can hover over the tab that reads “The Team,” and see that Anderson Cooper is listed as a correspondent.
I have no interest in visiting their webpage, though. Or any television “news” site. I only know about Anderson Cooper at all because Dopers can’t seem to restrain themselves from mentioning him.
You’re the one who asked the question. You must have some interest.
Visiting a major news program’s website isn’t going to make you gay or give you herpes. No need to be frightened.
Sorry, I didn’t realize Googling Anderson Cooper or 60 minutes was beneath your dignity.
Why the scare quotes around “news”?
Not “interest” so much as “confusion.”
“News” on television is beneath EVERYBODY’S dignity.
Because ACTUAL news involves journalism, which doesn’t exist on television.
Her husband, Glendon Crain.
What “news” sources meet your high standards of journalism, praytell?
Huge lights will contract the pupil, not dilate it.
And there’s a horse sport that’s actually called “event”? Because I guess they decided that there’s no other activity that word could possibly refer to?
Print, and NPR.
Agreed. I’m a fan of both of those. What about BBC?
May I suggest 60 Minutes?
I hear them sometimes on NPR, late at night; early in the morning. I don’t pull in the BBC on my TV, though.
See, now I’m sorry I responded to your question.
They and their fiscal success are what led to the elimination of journalism on television in the first place, by demonstrating that a news division of a television network could be a profit center. The output of television news divisions is not tailored to inform; it is tailored to terrify, to titillate, and to generate (usually self-) righteous outrage, all in the service of pulling in eyeballs that can be sold to advertisers.
I agree that the 24 hour news cycle has done more to damage the credibility of journalism than help keep people informed. But I urge you to reconsider your negative opinion of journalists like Anderson Cooper. Although he does sometimes drift into opinion, he’s one of the few good ones out there.
The New York Times wants to make a profit too, but I think of them as part of journalism.
That 60 Minutes caused other shows to provide crap does not mean that their show is crap.