Anderson Cooper Admits Mistake in Sherrod Interview…
NewsBusters’ Rich Noyes writes about Anderson Cooper admitting he should have challenged Shirley Sherrod when she called Andrew Breitbart a “racist”…
On Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360, anchor Anderson Cooper faulted himself for not pressing Shirley Sherrod when she appeared on the show back on July 22 and claimed that conservative Andrew Breitbart was a “vicious” racist who “would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery.”
Cooper now says he should have challenged Sherrod to support such an inflammatory charge with facts: “I believe in admitting my mistakes….I didn’t challenge her that night and I should have.”
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July 30, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Good move. I imagine it’s difficult to come up with the tougher questions when you’re dealing with someone not normally in the public eye. Even more so when the person was so clearly wronged. You might tend to let them blather on without homing in on individual comments, such as you would with a more ‘obvious’ news-maker.
July 30, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Good for him for acknowledging that. I can see how he might have been trying to hone-in on a line of questioning and not listening to her statements quite as well as he should have.
July 30, 2010 at 3:49 pm
I think it’s more what Laura said: Sherrod isn’t a known public figure you would go in prepared to grill. You’re talking to somebody who got screwed over telling the story of how she recovered from the effects of her daddy’s unprosecuted murder.
I think her statement about Breitbart was unfair, but under the circumstances, AC may have been inclined to let her statement speak for itself. The more I think about it, the less inclined I am to believe he should have confronted it.