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Marc Cooper is an American journalist, author, journalism professor and
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. He is a
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to ''
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''. He wrote the popular "Dissonance" column for '' LA Weekly'' from 2001 until November 2008. His writing has also appeared in such publications as the ''
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'', '' Harper's Magazine'', ''
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''. His translated work has been published in various European and Latin American publications, including the French daily ''Liberation'' and the Mexico City-based dailies ''La Jornada'' and ''Uno Mas Uno''. He has also been a television producer for
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, '' CBS News'', and ''
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''. His radio reports have aired on
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and the
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. During the 2008 presidential campaign he worked as editorial coordinator of ''The Huffington Post''s citizen-journalism project OffTheBus as well as a senior editor of the overall site.


Early life

Cooper was born in and grew up in Los Angeles. His career in journalism began in 1966 when he founded and edited an underground newspaper at Fairfax High School in
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. Cooper attended San Fernando Valley State College in the 1960s and took part in several protests. In 1971, he was expelled from the
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system for his antiwar activism by order of
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Ronald Reagan


In Chile

From 1971 to 1973, Cooper served as the Spanish-English translator for
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an Socialist
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. Following the
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of 1973, he fled the country, fearing execution as a participant in the Allende government; some of his American friends were executed by the military, including journalist
Charles Horman Charles Edmund Lazar Horman (May 15, 1942 – September 19, 1973) was an American journalist and documentary filmmaker. He was executed in Chile in the days following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet, which overthr ...
. In 2002 he testified before a Chilean magistrate in the investigation of Horman's death.


Radio

From 1980 to 1983, Cooper was the news and public affairs director of Pacifica station KPFK-FM, Los Angeles. Between 1995 and 2005 he served as the principal host and executive producer of Radio Nation, a weekly syndicated one-hour production of
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, featuring writers and editors from ''
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'' magazine. Cooper anchored the program from its inception in 1995 until he relinquished the post in 2006. Between 1998 and 2001, he also hosted a daily KPFK talk show, ultimately resigning amid disagreements with a dissident group that gained control of the station's parent, the Pacifica Foundation. At its peak, Radio Nation was heard on more than 100 public and community radio stations.


Journalism

In spring 2006, Cooper was appointed a full-time member of the journalism faculty at the
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for the academic year 2006–2007. He had taught the previous five years as an adjunct. He was also promoted to the post of associate director at Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism. In late 2008, Cooper was also named director of Annenberg Digital News and its online publication
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. In 2010 he was promoted to Associate Professor of Professional Practice. He also coordinates the USC Annenberg News21 fellowship which is part of a national Carnegie-Knight initiative for developing innovative journalism. His journalism prizes include awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Armstrong Memorial Foundation, the
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Foundation, the California Associated Press TV and Radio Association, the
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, and the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. He began his own daily blog in 2004. Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at ''
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''. During the 2008 campaign he served as a senior editor of the site and also worked as editorial director of its OffTheBus citizen journalism reporting project. The same year he joined the advisory board of Pajamas Media, a
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-related company. As of July 2007, Cooper is no longer affiliated with Pajamas Media. He left ''The Huffington Post'' in December 2008. He is married to Chilean writer and teacher Patricia Vargas-Cooper and has one adult daughter, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, who studied at
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. She graduated in May 2007 and is now a writer and journalist. Her book ''Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through America of the 60's'' was published by Harper Collins in 2010.


Controversial views

Although Cooper espouses many traditional leftist positions, he also criticizes some of his fellow leftists for what he says is a kneejerk and irrational tendency to support "unworthy" and marginal causes. He ruffled many ideological allies by his criticism of
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, whom he famously dismissed as "a bad choice for poster-boy of the anti-death penalty movement." Cooper also disparaged
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, calling him a "guaranteed loser" who was "an irrelevant and clearly deranged loner on the edge of the looniest left." Cooper was vocal in his opposition to the
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and the subsequent occupation, but he has been scathingly critical of other leftist opponents to the war, such as Canadian journalist
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, who he lambasted as a "friend" and "apologist" for prominent
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Islamist
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in response to a piece she wrote for the September 13, 2004 edition of ''
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''. Cooper has also been harshly critical of
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Hugo Chávez, whom he regards as a "thug," and very supportive of the
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in 2004. Cooper has criticized the liberal position on gun control, and has written that he is "tired of and deeply annoyed by affluent liberals--living in 6,000-square-foot houses with heated swimming pools, who use a 400-horsepower SUV to drive their kids two blocks to school, with a family carbon footprint that of a small battleship". Over the past few years Cooper has sharply criticized the
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n government for its crackdown on internal dissidents—some of whom have been handed stiff sentences for receiving funds and instructions from the United States. Cooper has helped write and circulate international letters of protest defending the locked-up dissidents. He has described his current political position as "contrarian" and declares himself "agnostic" on grand ideological schemes.


Publications

Cooper has published three books: ''Roll Over Che Guevara: Travels of a Radical Reporter'' (1994), an anthology of his journalistic pieces; ''Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti Memoir'' (2001) which was an L.A. Times best-seller; and ''The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas'' (2004).


References


External links


Marc Cooper's Web site and blog
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