CNN Gets Paris Exposed.Com: Anderson Cooper Equals Paris Hilton?
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By Josh Hart
Feb 1, 2007

While Paris Hilton is seething about a website dubbed Paris Exposed.Com showing all sorts of naughty Paris and friends moments, CNN is getting a dose of 'Paris Exposed' as well. The network is reportedly very angry that a Fox News Channel ad compares the cable network's dapper newsman Anderson Cooper to Paris Hilton.


Anderson Cooper Gets a Dose of Paris Exposed From Fox

According to a report from the New York Post Fox News Channel uses an ad spread in Television Week magazine to lampoon Cooper. The ad features a shot of Cooper from behind posing for a team of paparazzi who are frantically snapping his picture. "Meet the Paris Hilton of Television News," the ad crows. It then accuses the silver-maned talking head of being a "media darling" who's the product of "endless hype," but is really all "style over substance."

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Page Six reports that the ad also claims CNN has shelled out "tens of millions of dollars in advertising" to put Cooper on the map, "and he still gets beaten every night by 'On the Record With Greta Van Susteren' - the No. 1 show at 10 p.m."

Cue the rep™: According to the Post, A CNN flack called Fox's ad an "act of desperation because Greta's audience has been eroding and 'Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees' is getting closer. This is a sign they are starting to panic." The rep also denied CNN had spent tens of millions to hype Cooper, but wouldn't say what it has doled out.