584: Anderson Cooper | The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) is a broadcast journalist, political commentator, 18-time Emmy Award winner, and author of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty.
What We Discuss with Anderson Cooper:- How Anderson got his start in broadcast journalism without relying on his famous, wealthy family connections.
- Why experiencing the loss of a parent early in life drew Anderson toward learning how to survive in extreme circumstances and report in places torn by conflict.
- What growing up scrutinized by media in the wake of family tragedy taught Anderson about being an empathetic journalist from the other side of the lens.
- How Anderson harnesses his self-described innate awkwardness for establishing rapport with people who have already been interviewed from every angle (like Eminem).
- What a real journalist is prepared to do during a breaking news segment when the teleprompter goes dark.
- And much more...
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| 1:31.2 | His career path has banned Burma Somalia Iraq, Sarajevo filming everything on a home video camera |
| 1:36.7 | Essentially and doing it all alone in the beginning that's quite the career path and those are the early days covered wars |
| 1:42.1 | tsunamis even some of the worst and best of humanity today we go deep on war humanity and |
| 1:48.6 | Inhumanity as well as the state of the media today now |
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