I would feel pretty silly writing about Anderson Cooper’s tight bicep-revealing tee wardrobe in Haiti so I’ll just share an excerpt of what The New York Times has written:

If journalists in Iraq still wear heavy armor for whatever protection it provides against bombs, certain journalists in Haiti are also armored, but with outsize pecs and gym-bunny arms.Viewers who watched CNN’s earthquake coverage this last week were bound to be struck by correspondents who looked a lot less like the usual disheveled examples of those in the profession than like bendable action figures.

You could call it the Anderson Cooper effect. Mr. Cooper has rarely missed an opportunity to showcase his buff physique (as anyone would know if he or she remembers his stripping to a bathing suit to quiz Michael Phelps). But Mr. Cooper isn’t the only CNN correspondent with a self-conscious taste for form-fitting charcoal T-shirts, accessorized with a tiny microphone clipped at the neck.
Looking somewhat sheepish about it, a newly sleek Dr. Sanjay Gupta moved through Port-au-Prince wearing a snug gray T-shirt, his hair styled in the obligatory CNN crop. His colleague Jason Carroll, reporting on Wednesday’s aftershock and looking like a guy who had done 20 quick pushups before going on air, wore a T-shirt so snugly revealing it called into question whether a disaster zone is the place to flaunt one’s gym physique.

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1. January 25th, 2010 at 7:57 am
   rayban says:

   Why won’t Anderson Cooper discuss his sexuality? Does he feel that it’s totally irrelevant to his job? Probably.