> You only have to look at a famous photo to see. It's the one of Anderson Cooper standing in a flooded ditch, water up to his chest, while a cameraman stands f

> You only have to look at a famous photo to see. It's the one of Anderson Cooper standing in a flooded ditch, water up to his chest, while a cameraman stands feet away on flooded level ground-- with water up to his ankles. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anderson-cooper-hurricane/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anderson-cooper-hurricane/ > Photographs document CNN's Anderson Cooper faking the depths of Hurricane Florence floodwaters. > Rating: Miscaptioned > ...However, the various available clips of the program document that the waters in the immediately surrounding area were both fairly deep and quite variable. As Anderson noted during that broadcast, his taking two steps backwards from where he was standing would have caused him to sink in neck-deep water: > Cooper also noted that the floodwaters had actually receded significantly before he began his report, and that although he could have stood in a higher-level adjacent roadway where he might have remained drier, he would have risked interfering with emergency vehicles and others attempting to traverse flooded roads. > So while Cooper might have been able to find a somewhat drier spot to report from and instead chose one that provided a visually dramatic appearance, he wasn’t misrepresenting or “lying” about the general state of the flood as seen in the finished program. And his positioning seems “fake” only when contrasted with that of the camera crew’s, who obviously could not operate under the same conditions as Cooper and had to be situated either on higher ground or on platforms that kept them and their equipment above water.