Head's Up If You Care About Egypt & Missed AC360. It Really Was A MUST SEE. Vid & Transcript Here...

[Turborama]

@aeladawi Amira
3 cheers for #andersoncooper !!! You've proved honest, direct and intouch, whether you are in #Egypt or reporting from home. #AC360

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He totally BLASTS the Egyptian regime for the best part of an hour. "It seems we are just hearing lies from the Egyptian government."

I'll add videos and transcript as and when it becomes available. I'll probably run out of time before the editing dealing runs out so watch out them in replies.



In the meantime, here's a review that's just been posted...

Anderson Cooper In An Impressive, Critical Broadcast On Egypt

Posted on February 7th, 2011 23:11 by Tony Gatto

Anderson Cooper went on the air tonight at 10pm ET and reported on the crisis in Egypt, taking an awe-inspiring look at the uprising, the Mubarak government and the Egyptian regime. It seems, Cooper, in his broadcast, AC360, was ready to take off the gloves from the very top. While other networks continue to provide “balanced” reporting, the journalism we have come to know, where you give each side its fair say and then move on, CNN did not provide that tonight.

In the character of an Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite, Cooper has given everybody a chance to make their points, but has reached the conclusion that the Mubarak regime is lying, continuing to suppress protesters, kidnapping them and killing them, sometimes in plain sight. He pointed out that the VP, who is supposed to be heading the transition was the intelligence chief. So who is guiding the secret police on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria? Has everyone not seen the riveting interview with the Fox News crew that was snatched by those very police and nearly killed? Haven’t all journalists seen the YouTube video of the unarmed protester being shot by the secret police? Cooper put it succinctly, “The Egyptian government has blood on its hands.”

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This Anderson Cooper broadcast could have an important impact. I can envision White House press secretary Robert Gibbs walking into the Oval Office and telling the President, “You gotta watch this”. On the broadcast, Washington veteran David Gergen cautioned that the administration cannot go up to the rooftops and call for Mubarak’s resignation. On the same hand, journalists have to tell the truth, or as Cooper calls it, “Keeping them honest.”

From: http://tonygatto.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/anderson-cooper-in-an-impressive-critical-broadcast-on-egypt/

I'm not exaggerating when I say I think I just saw CNN make a shift towards the kind of proper reporting we see on Al Jazeera English.

[sabrina 1]

1. I saw part of it, and will watch the rest later. But while I am glad

he finally stopped with the 'both sides are doing it' reporting we are so accustomed to in this country, I cannot forget that when Al Jazeera was kicked out of Egypt, and their reporters jailed and harassed, AC did not say a word about it. At that time he was playing the 'there is violence on both sides' and/or 'we cannot say who is responsible for the violence' game. So much so I had to give up watching CNN rather than risk destroying the TV.

All journalists should have expressed outrage over what happened with Al Jazeera, but none of them did. It was only when the regime went after THEM that they began to see why it is important to tell the truth.

Glad he's doing it, but will he act the same way, providing 'balance' when it's clear there is no 'balance' between the good guys and the bad guys on the next major story? He did the same with Breitbart/O'Keefe pretending there was anything equivalent on the left in this country.

However, I am glad he has finally decided to report the facts on this story. I hope he will cover Suleiman, his past, who he really is, and not continue the pretense we are seeing here that Suleiman is some kind of benevolent humanitarian.

[EFerrari]

2. There were some CNN people on the ground

tweeting about what was happening to AJ. I don't know if it got on the air because I don't watch CNN.

[sabrina 1]

3. Yes, there were. But everyone was saying they were very brave to do so

and might lose their jobs. One of them, his name was Ben airc, was posting tweets asking if CNN was actually seeing the same revolution he was seeing. I was surprised he was so openly critical of their reporting being that he works for them.

[EFerrari]

4. CNN is not a real news organization and Anderson Cooper

is not a real journalist. They are some American knock off. I would bet that whoever the producer was that put Cooper in that situation has been fired.

[JDPriestly]

8. I do not always agree with Anderson Cooper.

But his reporting on Katrina and on the Egyptian crisis was just first-rate.

Sometimes he is too intent on equating two points of view that just are not equal at all. But sometimes he dares to challenge conventional wisdom and speak without too much reverence for authority. And when that nerve in him has been hit, when he sees injustice and actually recognizes it, then his reports are compelling. I can understand that people do not like him sometimes. But his reporting in Egypt was great.

[EFerrari]

16. Anderson Cooper never really challenges the official narrative

very much which is why he is allowed to headline these disaster porn fests. He pushes a little here and there but never enough to upset anyone.

[cali]

20. that's a vague accusation without any specifics.

typical.

[cali]

13. really? do explain why Cooper isn't a real journalist?

Why his reporting from NO and Haiti and Egypt aren't real journalism? Do tell.

[sabrina 1]

19. I agree. And the very fact that we think what AC did in this instance

is so remarkable, proves that ....

When you watch Al Jazeera you realize what a real news organization is and what real journalism is.

The outrage in this thread at the suggestion that CNN is not a legitimate news org. demonstrates how starved for real news people in the U.S. are.

[cali]

12. Make a claim, post some evidence. When did he do "the

both sides are doing it"? shit? Examples please. Because from what I've seen and heard of Cooper throughout this crisis is... none of that. So you made the claim. YOU post the proof.

I'm so sick of people making claims with exactly ZERO fucking evidence. It's a suck ass habit. And ironic as hell.

[Turborama]

18. Here....

A couple of examples posted by me...

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=488267&mesg_id=488267

&

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x487755

& Beth wrote a really good one here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8797382

[Turborama]

5. Some video clips are on their site now....

Here: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/02/07/ac.kth.egyptian.deception.cnn

Look out for these ones, too...

White House shifting tone on Egypt 6:40

Egyptian actor slams Mubarak regime 6:12

Double talk and deceit in Egypt 4:43

Egyptian opposition leader slams regime 2:56

I'm going to be uploading them to my Youtube channel and posting them in the videos forum, too.

[snot]

6. Whenever the corp. media actually gets it right, we greet it like a hail mary

'cuz it's so rare.

[EFerrari]

7. The thing, imo, that Cooper does very well in this interview

is to get across the point that Egypt is a police state. He brings it up again and again.

[pinboy3niner]

9. Exactly

I have to give credit to Cooper for that--it was a good report.

Rachel Maddow also did a couple of good reports on Egypt tonight. One featured an assistant prof. at Barnard whom I haven't seen before, but she was very impressive in her assessment of the current situation:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x371359

[EFerrari]

15. He also had a very good collection of guests for this segment.

It was well done.

[cali]

14. but but but he's not a "real journalist" according to

you.

[Turborama]

10. Link to the transcript of the whole show ---->

Sorry about the delay but they've just added it: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1102/07/acd.01.html



I've downloaded clips and am uploading them to my YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b_OIOAayjY">Part 1 is already http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x551895">in the videos forum and I'm currently working on uploading part 2 - which is the interview with Dr AlBaradei. My connection's upload speed is really crappy so it's taking a while to get them up there...

[malaise]

11. Excellent program

Anderson does not share my worldview but he is an excellent reporter.

[sufrommich]

17. I've been really impressed with Cooper's reporting on Egypt. nt