Marc Cooper

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Marc Cooper (* before 1966 in Los Angeles ) is an American journalist , author , lecturer and blogger . He is also currently an Associate Editor of The Nation and writes a weekly column for LA Weekly . Articles and contributions have appeared in the Los Angeles Times , The Atlantic Monthly , Harper's Magazine , The New Yorker , the Christian Science Monitor , Playboy and Rolling Stone , among others . On television, he has worked for PBS , CBS News, and the Christian Science Monitor . He has appeared on the radio on NBC , CBC and the BBC .

Life

Cooper was born and raised in Los Angeles . In 1966, he started an underground newspaper at Fairfax High School in West Hollywood, California. In 1971, Cooper was expelled from California State University for activities against the Vietnam War by order of then Governor Ronald Reagan .

1971 to 1973 Cooper worked as an interpreter for the then President of Chile , Salvador Allende . After the coup in Chile in 1973 , he successfully escaped and returned to the USA. From 1980 to 1983, Cooper headed the newsroom for KPFK-FM radio in Los Angeles .

Cooper is married to the Chilean author and teacher Patricia Vargas-Cooper and has one grown daughter.

Views

Even if Cooper still counts himself to the left, he surprised some of his fellow campaigners with unusual views. He considered the demand for an acquittal for Mumia Abu-Jamal to be rather detrimental to the campaign against the death penalty . He described the Indian activist Ward Churchill as a "loser from the service" and "left sectarian". Cooper spoke out against the 2003 Iraq war , but did not hold back with criticism of left war opponents, such as Naomi Klein , whom he insulted as a supporter of the Islamist Muqtada al-Sadr . Cooper has also called Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez a crook, campaigned for Cuban dissidents and spoke out very clearly for the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.

Cooper has been a lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication, which is part of the University of Southern California , since 2006 .

Fonts

  • Roll Over Che Guevara: Travels of a Radical Reporter (1994)
  • Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti Memoir (2001)
  • The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas (2004)

Prices

  • Society of Professional Journalists
  • Armstrong Memorial Foundation
  • Sidney Hillman Foundation
  • California Associated Press TV and Radio Association
  • California Newspaper Publishers Association
  • Best in the West
  • Project Censored
  • PEN American Center
  • Greater Los Angeles Press Club

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personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles