Horror With Cooper

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June 7, 2010

Oil rig survivors recount horror with CNN's Cooper

CNN's Anderson Cooper sat down with some of the survivors of the explosion that started the worst oil spill in U.S. history, and their accounts of that catastrophe will air Monday and Tuesday night at 10.

I am struck by the apocalyptic langauge and sense of battlefield shock sounded in the video excerpts made available by CNN. One account of a man being thrown like a child's toy to his death humanized the horror in a way it had never been for me despite all the hours of coverage I have viewed.

Anderson, one of TV's most skilled interviewers, knows enough to stand back and let these survivors tell the story in their own words. Take a look.


I did an interview with Cooper late Monday. I'll get it up tonight or early tomorrow morning. He has some powerful things to say about BP and the way it was able to control the flow of information and keep the public in the dark about the extent of the catastrophe far too long.