Roger Catlin‘s take on the overnight cable coverage:
“CNN had showed the problems with going live with a story — with Cooper constantly talking on camera, he was prevented, of course, from doing any actual reporting. He was at the mercy of people who happened to come up to him and give him the news…”
Referring to the woman who told the world that only one miner made it out alive, he writes: “It was remarkable that Cooper and CNN even allowed the woman to say what she did, since it flew in the face of everything everybody had been reporting for hours (and would be printed incorrectly in many morning newspapers nationwide).”
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