de Moraes on Ailes/TCA…takes shot at Anderson Cooper
Lisa de Moraes, TV columnist for the Washington Post, did an online chat today and the subject of the Roger Ailes appearance at the TCA came up…
Washington, D.C.: Were you one of the critics who heckled/walked out on Roger Ailes?
Lisa de Moraes: No. I was there for his entire session and Ailes was not heckled and I did not see anyone walk out on him….I heard that there was one critic who said he was declining to attend, but that’s it…But you know critics — vivid imaginations…
de Moraes also took a shot at Anderson Cooper…
Cooper-ed out: Your Royal Pookiness:
Can you make Anderson Cooper go away, please? Way too self-absorbed in his “I’m a journalist, look at me show how much I care” mode. He admitted last night CNN has a still photographer following him around last night as he reports from Lebanon, just so we can Anderson look pensive, Anderson look world-weary, etc. He needs to go bye-bye back to the Park Avenue penthouse, please. Thank you.
Lisa de Moraes: ah, but Anderson Cooper serves a purpose. Without Anderson Cooper we would not fully appreciate the work of, say, reporter Nic Robertson, or show anchor Brian Williams, for example. It helps to have that that point of comparison…that and he’s so darned cute…
Wow…
Someone was hired just to take pictures of Anderson. How many more millions will they spend on him?
Comment by erljr — August 4, 2006 @ 9:40 pm
How can these tv reporters have such different recollections of events that happened so recently?
I’ll stick Howard Kurtz who said he heard many walked out and was told by a few others of their fear of negative perceptions about the critics because of their actions.
Comment by Harvey — August 6, 2006 @ 4:48 pm