Cooper does many things that aren’t in an anchors’ textbook

Philadelphia Inquirer
“I stutter. I talk too fast. I don’t finish sentences,” says Anderson Cooper. The CNN anchor is bemused at being the hot new thing, reports Gail Shister. Cooper tells her: “Frankly, what I’ve been doing the last two months with Katrina is pretty much the same thing I’ve been doing for 15 years, in Somalia, in Rwanda, in Baghdad – walking around with my home video camera and telling stories. People think I’ve suddenly just popped up on the screen. I’ve been plugging away for 15 years.”
> “It’s been a remarkable year and a terrible year,” says Cooper (USAT)
> “I’m probably the oldest 38-year-old I know,” says Cooper (TV Guide)