As the crisis nears the two-month mark, the news media is taking on a more adversarial role, just as they did after Hurricane Katrina. Various networks have challenged Pres. Obama at briefings. For Cooper, the oil spill coverage has been a "defining moment," said Verne Gay, the television critic for Newsday. Inside CNN Cooper is Mister Disaster, first among American anchors to arrive in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the morning after the earthquake there in January, and among the last to leave. He says he has always been drawn to places of conflict and feels an obligation to take television viewers there, too.
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