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While there hasn’t been a shortage of people jumping on the “We *heart* Coop” bandwagon recently, it turns out that our silver haired fox isn’t immune to a few shortcomings. True, his book Dispatches from the Edge : A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival topped the NYT best seller list for a while but it seems that CNN’s pretty boy isn’t doing very well in the ratings game.
Maybe Coop’s just too damn good looking for television.
Why don’t more people tune in? One theory is that the evening cable news audience is more interested in Fox fare than the emo-cocktail offered up on 360. Another is that 360 itself is an inconsistent show, varying widely in topic and tone.
Another—a surprisingly popular one—is that Mr. Cooper himself, for all his vaunted good looks, is aesthetically ill-suited to television. The silver hair and piercing blue eyes make him all light and no contrast, a human green screen. “He’s wispy,” said the head of one cable news network. “I don’t know how to describe it.”
I’d like to instantly nominate the NYO for best use of the term “emo-cocktail” so far this year.
The Cooper Enigma: Anderson’s A Star, But Numbers Stink [NYO]
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