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By Tania Lobo
Journalist Anderson Cooper was in Egypt to try and report developments and views of the general public and the authorities in the movement against Mubarak when he was attacked. For the first time since, he discussed the experience with David Letterman.
Egypt has become a land where only the savage seem like being able to survive and the attacks from the local mobs on the society and the general violence of the nation seems to be forever on the rise and that too at a rampant rate.
The rage and the fury of the general public are only going to be expected to be directed at the authorities and the government that runs the country and more specifically against its president.
However, it seems that the journalists that visit the patented Tahrir Square to try and cover the goings on for the sake of their respective journals are not at bay from the risks and hazards of living in or going close to the region.
One such story was shared by Anderson Cooper, who was none but a plain old journalist who was visiting Egypt to report goings on but then he realized he may become one of those who fall victim every day to the rampant attacks that are carried out in the name of demonstrations against the president that is Hosni Mubarak.
Cooper was at David Letterman hosted Late Show only recently and there he described his experience. Cooper had been in Cairo to report on the developments of the pro-democracy movement when he and his crew tried to move up to the mobs supporting Mubarak when he was hit in the head by the anti mob.
Anderson, who is forty three years of age, was quick to point out that his treading towards the pro-Mubarak groups was only a requisite of his job rather than a personal desire.
He was clear though; a Cairo visit was not one he would have recommended to any of his friends at any time through this crisis after that incident.
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