So, Anderson Cooper had a nice story on "60 Minutes" Sunday when he interviewed a former MP whose life has descended into a surreal kind of hell since being the whistleblower on Abu Ghraib.
The Coop is doing five stories for 60M this year, though it's unclear if his arrangement with CBS gives him free rein to recycle those segments for his own "Anderson Cooper 360" on CNN.
But that's just what he did last night. Yes, CBS did get first dibs on the interview. Nonetheless, have to wonder if they were expecting a rival to get a second crack at the story.
Not exactly giving comfort to the enemy, especially when the correspondent works both sides of the fence.
Still, this might not be the kind of precedent CBS envisioned setting, and one they didn't have to visit when Christiane Amanpour was doing similar duty.
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If you had bothered to check the original press release issued by 60 minutes when they announced AC would be contributing 5 stories, they CBS also stated his reports would also be shownh on his own show after they aired on CBS.
Duly noted. Here's the release that our snippy correspondent from above is referring to:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/08/60minutes/main1598643.shtml?CMP=ILC-SearchStories
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