Anderson Cooper is an excellent reporter even though he is a bit of a lefty weeny

Update | 9:01 a.m. In an interview with the French radio station RTL, Bernard Kouchner, France’s foreign minister said: “The building of the UN peace mission collapsed and it would appear that all those who were in the building, including my friend [Hedi] Annabi, and that all those who were with him and around, him are dead.”

Very tragic news coming out of Haiti.

FOX really? the ultra conservative station?? they will probably be the last if at all. I bet the reporters got there before any real help made it, and 20 crew members, damn i wonder how much that cost CNN? My prayers go out to Haiti, which has suffered so much already.

Fox news is the #1 nighttime Cable news network. Their dedication to being fair and un-biased has proved to be good business.

Anderson Cooper's show is in last place in the ratings. His bias reporting and refusal to acknowledge that their is a whole country between NY and LA has proven to be a rating disaster.

here come the reporters to get in the way of rescue and relief workers.

If there is nothing with Anderson Cooper being gay why did you mention in in the first place? Send the chicks form Fox? Really... Any who, the important thing is that there are people already heading to the seen of events to try and give accurate accounts of what is actually happening and to report the state of things, so that information is given as best as possible. I doubt that being gay or an indivduals sexual preference will have anything to deter, undermine or hinder this process in anyway.

Find a good organization to donate funds and supplies.

Two excellent organizations accepting donations for response to the Haiti quake are Oxfam America (http://www.oxfamamerica.org/) and Partners in Health (http://www.pih.org/). Both have staff on the ground and solid reputations.

http://www.oxfamamerica.org
http://www.pih.org

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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/pierrecote

Real-time from Haiti, this guy seems very calm and on top of things though certainly overwhelmed on his little personal blog streaming site.

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Another excellent group accepting donations is Doctors Without Borders which runs La Trinité trauma hospital in Port-au-Prince: www.doctorswithoutborders.org
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I work for Save the Children, which has a significant presence in Haiti. Staff there and in the U.S. are working to mount a major response to the earthquake.

http://www.savethechildren.org.

About the reporters, the truth is we want them all there, wherever they r from, their sexuality, their sexual preferences whatever, we want them to be there all day every day, they need to be the eyes of the world so everyone can see whether close or far what has happened in Haiti.

Will the Haitians and the UN come to aid California next time there is a quake there? I'm just sayin........

AnthonyC, I listen to O'Reilly & the Fox team talk about Palin hype & how she's a big game changer for McLame in the '08! I saw FOX prediction of how the dems were out of touch and it was just a matter of time before the American people spoked to reflect what FOX was reporting...

Well, the American people did speak and FOX like McLame was so far out of touch with the rest of mainstream America (but FOX was in touch with sheep farmers in WY).

But a few rich bankers and sheep farmers in rural areas can NOT make you #1 WORLD LEADER IN NEWS.

But it is okay, to have your dreams but every now and again, I will bring a "reality check".

Like the Haitains in America who flew back, I will be getting my updates on the poor Haitians like most Americans during the day (not just at nighttime).

The FOX reporters likely view HAITIAN people as untouchables and thus are likely pulled straws to see who wins and gets to stay in the USA vs who loses and goes to Haiti. REAL TALK!

I cannot fathom the hateful sarcasm that some have demonstrated in regards to this most horrific situation. I just pray that a similar situation does not happen in DR in the near future. And if it does, I most definately hope that others will not be such assholes in regards to the negativity and the utter lack of respect for human life that some of you sadly to say and call my compatriots have been able to muster.

According to US coast guard helicopters the Haiti airport is operational, although there seems to be no flight control communications, which can be dangerous to incoming planes wanting to land.
Until some sort of communications order is reestablished, flight traffic can not be resumed, and incoming airplanes will have to land with just visual and at their own risk.

should not hate now, save stupid comments, time to pray for haiti

AntonyC Dijo:
"Fox news is the #1 nighttime Cable news network. Their dedication to being fair and un-biased has proved to be good business"

LOL best joke I've heard all morning.

I just heard in CNN that planes and choppers from neighboring territories (didn't specify if it was RD) were not permited to get in Haiti with medical aid and supplies.

Mr Snoopy32:
First of all, Brutasky, is not dominican
AntonyC is Cuban-Puerto Rican and lives in Miami and PR

So I suggest you read carefully before making these kinds of remarks.

Dominicans had proven to be on the side of Haiti on this catastrophe as many of our hospitals are already recieving wounded people from the other side of the island.

platanos you are giving away your inferiority complex about Boricuas and Cubans

You can help haiti too by sending a phone text message...90999,haiti!!! 10 dollars donation, red cross internacional.

will the illegals in DR go back home to help rebuild?

I really think one team of TV reporters is quite enough in the circumstances for all countries and they can provide their own commentaries ,,There is enough problems without a surplus of TV staff being there . That is what they do for many events . I imagine even Santo Domingo will have all the hotels full with various officials, AID agencies and Press unable to find anywhere to stay in Haiti

A huge disaster in Haiti is happening and some guys here make jokes. Go and ... yourself.... People without respect for anything...

Find a life!!!

Blutarsky,

There is no PR-CUban complex bro. Stop talking ish****

We Dominicans have always helped Haitians and are continuing to do so.

"Fox news is the #1 nighttime Cable news network. Their dedication to being fair and un-biased has proved to be good business."

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Who really cares about who is gay and who is there. What's more important is to send food and clothes. To organize relief efforts. I am organizing something to send food and clothes to Haiti. I have no one who is a contact over there but if it takes me to take the food there myself I will.

If you like make believe, invented news and biased, slanted, right wing extremist views, Fox is the right place for you.

I just checked out Fox. 20 seconds on earthquake, 5 minutes blasting health care reform and Obama. Pretty soon they will be announcing that the quake was the liberal's fault.

I have had my share of garbage reporting for the week. Someone else will have to fill us in on their more recent biased, slanted, inaccurate reporting.

as I said before you are all bitter as the reality dawns on you and the chickens come home to roost .All you LEFTIES are pissed because you are all discovering that OBOZO is just another hack politician from Chicago and the empty suit Fox said he was ....Welcome to reality as the democrats go.Hope and Change and down the Drain and Obozo sells you all down the river.....Hope and Change and down the Drain

Bruto-sky, there's not inferiority nothing, I am just stating the facts.

You are well-known anti-dominican and AntonyC is a Cuban refugee turn Puerto Rican who continuously blast against DR.

He neither cares for Haiti or Dominican Republic.

Nuff-said!

Well on a positive note,,,,,now Port Au Prince can be rebuild the right way,,without the favelas,,,,that if the politician does take all the aid going into haiti now

"Keep up the good work FOX, we love you!! Those that post those nasty remarks (lies) are in the tiny tiny minority which is getting smaller every day. America is waking up and we are going to take our country back from those Liberal, Socialist Democrats.

The Democrat party has voted for its death. By shoving a fascist progressive health care bill down the throats of the American people who detest it vehemently, they have proven that they cannot be trusted with any power ever again. Not since the Whig party imploded has an American political party so descended into chaos. Soon being called a Democrat will be akin to calling someone a criminal. ".....FOX Viewer

This is a great human tragedy!! :(

Atabey, I'm sorry for the loss of your friend!

Fox News will finish 2009 as the top-rated cable news network, a perch it has enjoyed for eight years running. But 2009--the first year of the Obama administration--also marks FNC's highest rated year in the channel's 13-year-history.

FNC topped the competition in all dayparts: morning (1 million total viewers, 340,000 viewers in news' target demographic of 25-54-year-olds); total day (1.2 million viewers, 323,000 in the demo); primetime (2.2 million viewers, 551,000 in the demo). Those numbers mark year-to-year demo gains of 14% in the morning, 16% in total day and 10% in primetime (Mon-Sun), according to Nielsen.

This terrible disaster for Haiti will mark the beginning of a new positive era for this country

"This terrible disaster for Haiti will mark the beginning of a new positive era for this country "

I think so to...I sincerely hope that we are both correct.

You weren't funny as Goulet Colonial, you are not funny as Blutarsky. You are consistent.

Consistently rude, stupid, and off point.

When you get barred again, as you will be soon, hopefully you will get the message and JUST GO AWAY.

I hope we can all leave ignorance behind, and just pray for this Country.

"This terrible disaster for Haiti will mark the beginning of a new positive era for this country"

It just might be the point of departure from its troubled past. Let's hope so. The situation may be so devastating to all, including the recalcitrants on all sides of the issues dividing that poor State and Nation, that hopefully they, along with the international community, finally start the very long awaited re-birth of Nation and State of Haiti. It will be an arduous journey, but once taken will bear the great fruits of progress and modernity for the long suffering people of Haiti. At least that is what I think Blutarsky meant by his remark.

I just got off the phone with my aunt in Santiago, they live a few blocks away from the monumento and very close to the offices of el listin diario in Santiago (I might the name of paper wrong) but anyways, she indicated to me that Santiago was rocked pretty hard too. Moreover, she reported that everyone was on foot or private transportation that day since there was strike in the city.

Believe it or not, this strike actually saved lives by reducing the possibility of car accidents due to the ground shaking.

She also mentioned to me that the reason why people in Haiti kept talking about "GREY CLOUDS" is because indeed, there was a huge gray cloud that rose from the horizon, covering Haiti, seconds before the quake hit.

She told me that some had shown her the video that a Haitian lady down on the south coast of haiti took with her cell phone of the great cloud. Can anyone try to locate such video, she told me that such video has been circulated among media in Santiago.

FOX = outFOX = trick you
If you are brain damaged then start looking at FOX and you will soon be brain dead.

A shame about the bickering here..... It truly is a positive to have reporters, from any network, on the ground, reporting on this terrible disaster and providing something, anything, news for all those with family in Haiti. I'm sure it provides some level of comfort.

Wondering if at this time the Dominican chicken and egss are still contaminated with avian flu or the Haitian goverment will still ask us to get certified by a third party before We can export poultry !

Now that the attention is taken away from our political problems. lets watch the death tolls in DR of political leaders go up and politicians fleing the country with Hugo's 50 men(Henchmen) rescue party and any other country using DR as a port of entry for the Haitian relief aid.

I am constantly amazed by the small mindedness of some of my fellow Dominicans. There is an ongoing tragedy involving the deaths of thousands and the personal injury to hundreds of thousands. On top of which, what little these people had in the way of personal possessions is also lost. And yet some posters find this to be an appropriate time to open old wounds. Amazing.

I could not have said it better Thank You Very Much...........
" It just might be the point of departure from its troubled past. Let's hope so. The situation may be so devastating to all, including the recalcitrants on all sides of the issues dividing that poor State and Nation, that hopefully they, along with the international community, finally start the very long awaited re-birth of Nation and State of Haiti. It will be an arduous journey, but once taken will bear the great fruits of progress and modernity for the long suffering people of Haiti. At least that is what I think Blutarsky meant by his remark."

this from anthonyc

Fox news is the #1 nighttime Cable news network. Their dedication to being fair and un-biased has proved to be good business.

Anderson Cooper's show is in last place in the ratings. His bias reporting and refusal to acknowledge that their is a whole country between NY and LA has proven to be a rating disaster.

at a time when people are dead and dying, and a massive disaster has eventuated in a desperately poor country, the best that this primitive can muster is to opine on politics in the USA. as i have said, many a time and oft, he is a useless waste of air.

JRRubirosa, 13 Jan 2010 1:52 PM
From: United States, Port Washington, LI (New York)
Wondering if at this time the Dominican chicken and egss are still contaminated with avian flu or the Haitian goverment will still ask us to get certified by a third party before We can export poultry !

I got respect for Dominicans but you your dad must be proud of you Today no respect.

amadi, i guess you are new to the forum. in time, you will come to realise that Rubirosa is a low class loser. you can tell the lack of character within a person´s soul when they use an event such as this to score some political point. then again, you can never shine sh..t.

same island today is Haiti who know what tomorrow may bring . I'm not tryin to shine sh...t. Have a good day.

"Written by: El_Platano, 13 Jan 2010 10:53 AM
From: United States, Yonkers, NY
Will the Haitians and the UN come to aid California next time there is a quake there? I'm just sayin
"
Your point above show there are no limit to human stupidity, keep on... if you can write, read and understand you will know that your sacarstic comment is not appropriate, just remenber karma is a bitch.

amadi, that is some serious truth there. maybe people should take time to realise that , but for the Grace of God, the news would have been coming from this side of the border. it really shows how simple minded some of these posters really are. sadly, they degrade the character of decent Dominicans, and leave the outside world quizzical about the type of people that are raised here.

Written by: Platanos_pelaos, 13 Jan 2010 11:07 AM

"AntonyC is Cuban-Puerto Rican and lives in Miami and PR"

I am? Could have fooled me!
Exactly where in PR do I live? I want to see what my home looks like.
As for being Puerto Rican I guess I will have to ask my parents why they have been lying to me all this time.

Reporters are good to a point. The problem I have is when they get away with the work that needs to be done.

REMEMBER that every reporting crew arriving in Haiti right now is taking the space of rescue workers and supplies.

The Dominican Republic is with Haiti all the way on this. We were the first to send aid to Haiti with the President ordering planes and helicopters to take aid to the ill and allowing many of the wounded to be transported to the Dominican Hospitals since the only 2 in Pourt Au Prince have collapsed. President Leonel Fernandez also ordered the Portable Comedores to distribute 1 million rations of food among the People of Haiti and the Secretaria de Obras Publicas to start designing a camp site in haiti where the sick can be aided. The Dominican Nations prayers are with all the Haitian People today.

You guys need to cut the politics and BS right now, people are suffering and dieing and some idiots are only speaking of the usual nonsense. We have our differences but please put aside the allegations and accusations at this time. If we not we are all no better than animals as a species, that goes for everyone.

what a bunch of idiots.... only talking about....Anderson Coopers ratings......
THESE IDIOTS HAVE NO HEART OR BRAINS. or maybe they do but they SIT ON THEM.
god help the poor folks in HAITI.....
i wonder how the few idiots would feel if it was their family over there?....what a piece of garbage they are Anderson Cooper..... LET HIM ALONE STUPID.

The brain dead of the US like Fox. The intelligent watch watch Russian TV.
http://rt.com/
They watch Prime Time! Also in the DR - cable channels carry Russian and Cuban TV, also CNN but never Fox -they don't want their chickens stolen!

But th do want wasabi Kamchatka crab!
http://rt.com/prime-time/2009-12-02/kamchatka-crab-recipe.html
Local DR crab or lobster does quite nicely as an alternative. !
We all hope Fox grows long legs and runs away!
S.

Fox News will finish 2009 as the top-rated cable news network, a perch it has enjoyed for eight years running. But 2009--the first year of the Obama administration--also marks FNC's highest rated year in the channel's 13-year-history.

FNC topped the competition in all dayparts: morning (1 million total viewers, 340,000 viewers in news' target demographic of 25-54-year-olds); total day (1.2 million viewers, 323,000 in the demo); primetime (2.2 million viewers, 551,000 in the demo). Those numbers mark year-to-year demo gains of 14% in the morning, 16% in total day and 10% in primetime (Mon-Sun), according to Nielsen.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stor....SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


The damage to Haiti is so devastating, so extensive that it offers a sense of hope in rebuilding, the experts said. Past disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, show that it is easier to put up new buildings than rebuild damaged ones, which is one reason why the wiped-clear Mississippi coast came back faster than New Orleans, Merritt said.

After the killer 1976 earthquake in Guatemala, houses were rebuilt with less vulnerable, lighter roofs and the entire region was designed to be less disaster prone, FIU's Olson said.

"Catastrophic disasters open a window of opportunity to fundamentally change how cities are rebuilt," Olson said. "If it's rebuilt in the same fashion (as it is now), our children are going to have this same conversation."

then possibly it is a good omen that the palace was destroyed nothing good ever came out of it ....Let us pray the future is better for what ever replaces it

Mr Snoopy32:
"First of all, Brutasky, is not dominican"

allow me to say that you are absolutely correct an by adding that TrollGoulet is an old senior citizen with any lack of elaboration on anything he talks about. the most ignorant soul on planet earth. i think Grandpa is having an affair with rush limbaugh!!! LOLOLOLOLOL

Banana nose amuses himself with usual drivel ......as I said before you demos are all bitter as the reality dawns on you and the chickens come home to roost .All you LEFTIES are pissed because you are all discovering that OBOZO is just another hack politician from Chicago and the empty shiny suit Fox said he was ....Welcome to reality as the democrats go down the drain and Obozo sells you all down the river and in mirabollitas case down the sewer pipe and into lake Huron for the moron

I saw AC360 last night. Not bad. I wonder how many people could have been saved if CNN had loaded their planes with SAR teams instead of ratings grabbers? With fuel and other supplies short, they will now be sucking precious resources aways from the SAR teams and the people who need it most. The next 24 hours are the most critical. Let's pray the SAR teams get in and start locating survivors.

It certainly seems that US officials were sleeping on the job. CNN is needed to mobilize world support but China got teams on the ground ahead of the US. Where were the US military planes?
China is at least a 14 hour flight.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100113/ts_csm/273734
As a youngster I participated in civil defense exercises and 6 hours was the normal time to have a field hospital and communications centre - short wave radio - operational at some fairly remote location.
Thanks to CNN and other reporting early signs are that a generous international response is now forthcoming and the World's individual contributions will surely be put to good use when there is media exposure.
http://www.redcross.org.uk/index.asp?id=39992
S.
S.

are you Chinese ? where was your fatherland Wankerlandia ?.....

If the White Houe were distroyed would that be a good omen?
Brits are deploying today.
More than 70 UK specialists with dogs and heavy equipment arrived in Haiti today.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/....ort/Article/201001215522024?f=rss
Cuban doctors are already treating victims.
http://www.cbs8.com/global/story.asp?s=11822088
S.


S.

Sar teams need heavy equipment. These are not transportable by the light planes CNN used.
'I wonder how many people could have been saved if CNN had loaded their planes with SAR teams instead of ratings grabbers? '
It is rednecks like you who cannot recognize that all efforts are valuable including news teams and that speed is of the essence and then resort to abusive terms that give US citizens a bad name,
With the hge resources the US has there could have been C5's packed with heavy equipment and helicopters landing within 6 hours of the earthquake.
But the present predicament ofthe Haiti people has been made worse by US policies over the years- the subsidized Miami rice for example.
S.

Sar teams need heavy equipment. These are not transportable by the light planes CNN used.
'I wonder how many people could have been saved if CNN had loaded their planes with SAR teams instead of ratings grabbers? '
It is rednecks like you who cannot recognise that all efforts are valuable including news teams and that speed is of the essence and then resort to abusive terms that give US citizens a bad name,
With the hge resources the US has there could have been C5's packed with heavy equipment and helicoplters landing within 6 hours of the earthquake.
But the present predicament ofthe Haiti people has been made worse by US policies over the years- the susbidised Miami rice for example. Anther being allowing Walmart to buy its t-shirts from factories paying 2 dollars a day in the global 'race to the bottom'.
S.

I'm not mad at CNN for wanting to show the human tragedy that this earthquake is, with the short attention span most people have, 'round the clock coverage is the only way to get people to understand this crisis is real ! not a "reality show" that will end in an hour. Fox "news" being number 1 in the cable news ratings only means the network makes boat loads of money selling advertising. It says nothing about the quality and honesty of their reporting. The fact that Fox employs few true journalist is lost on their core audience, and thats ok with them, after all, they'r being entertained.

abc remembers the massive aid program that saved Wankerlandia aka Britain after WWII and still resents American generosity all those Bundles for Britain and free spam have made him an anti American.........what an ingrate

Coca-Cola Co.'s charitable arm is donating $1 million to the American Red Cross to go toward earthquake relief in Haiti.
The world's largest soft drink maker also said it is donating bottled water and other drinks through its bottler in the Dominican Republic.
CEO Muhtar Kent told the company's 92,000 employees in an e-mail Wednesday the Atlanta-based company is checking on the safety of the 850 people who work for its bottler there. Three Coca-Cola employees who happened to be in Haiti during the earthquake Tuesday were safe and have since gone to the Dominican Republic, the company said.
The company said the plant of its bottling partner, Brasserie de la Couronne, appears to have limited or no structural damage.
Coca-Cola opened its first bottling plant in Haiti in 1928.

Zak - thanks for your rational thoguhts on the subject that are the same as mine.
S.

zak do not allow this brain dead imbecile to suck up to you ......you will soon be asked to contribute to save the morons or buy a time share next to a sewage treatment plant.....be on guard

Blut since when were you so good at recognizing brain dead imbiciles - where's your certificate to prove it? Why should anyone belive you - by the way I do not sell timeshares - never have.

S.

Coca Cola has made enough money out of impoverished third world countries in their worldwide exploitation efforts its only good PR to give a miniscule amount back.
S.

and the Havana cab drivers abc .....even they, as second rate as they are can be used in this terrible disaster

dont knock the americans they are givin 100 million.

abc has not recovered from the shame of when the USA saved the UK after WWI and WWII and the Malvinas he has a complex from eating to much spam after the war and his mommy dropped him on his head when they were hiding in the subway from the V2s

CNN= Govt controlled media outlet. Anderson Cooper=CIA spook operative. All about ratings.

clinker - yes 100 million is one can of beer 30 cents for each American. However they have had cheap t-shirts made by two dollar a day workers in Haiti all these years .........
S,