Kudos to Anderson Cooper

I normally don't have anything positive to say about the talking heads on CNN, FoxNews and MSNBC, but there are still a few actual journalists left on the 24-hour cable news channels. Mostly on CNN. Here's Anderson Cooper on why he's returning to Haiti after most of the newsmedia have moved on.

Later this week is the one month anniversary of the earthquake. To say things are getting better here is probably technically correct, but it's still miserable for hundreds of thousands of people.

The homeless are everywhere, the hungry are as well. They are still finding bodies all the time. Twenty-five people were shoved into old crypts in a city cemetery today. We watched the remains of a mother and her son being sealed into a crypt.

It's not the kind of misery that makes for headlines perhaps, and clearly it's not the kind of sorrow that demands a place on the nightly news, but it should.

There is more happening here than 10 American missionaries in jail. I guess I came to remind myself of that. No one deserves to die in silence, and no one's struggle to live should go unnoticed as well.

HT: Troy Livesay