Cooper started his career as a fact checker for Channel One, a program orientated at high school students. Growing restless, he struck out on his own, taking a video camera and traveling to war torn region in Africa and Southeast Asia. His reports gained the attention of ABC and in 1995 he became a war correspondent for the network. Later he would move to anchor positions on CNN before finally hosting his own news program, Anderson Cooper 360°, in 2003 (“Anderson Cooper”). …show more content…
His reports are personal, as he often gets emotionally involved in the stories he is covering. Indeed, Cooper’s personality always shines through in his reports, displaying a conspicuous empathy that has contributed to his public esteem. A criticism of this style is, of course, the eternal journalistic question of what role a journalist plays in society. Should they just be a source of information, or are they allowed to take a stance? Though his personality-fueled style offers an engaging form of storytelling, when a topic demands a more strict relation of information to the public, a slight bias is inescapably