CNN journalist, celebrity and pop culture phenom Anderson Cooper, or "Silver Fox," has lately gone from reporting the news to being the news. You see, last week after he returned from Egypt, Cooper condemned Egypt's former President Mubarak and his government for their "lies."

A staunch departure from Cooper's even-keeled tone, these comments have drawn criticism from the American journalistic community. The LA Times and other news sources contend that, while Cooper is right about Mubarak's "falsehoods," if you will, at this juncture in his prolific news anchor career, Cooper should know better than to take sides. Critics argue that it's not that Cooper's wrong, but that he's dangerously marrying fact with feelings. Meanwhile, Cooper stands behind his choice in diction.

Is it fact or feeling that Mubarak covered up how the national police ran over and shot unarmed protesters?

Is it fact or feeling that Mubarak promised to step down immediately but then backpedaled, saying that he would not resign so soon?

I, for one, stand behind Cooper. While I'm not a fan of many of his segments,at times you simply must call a spade a spade. In this case, Stevie Wonder, even, can see that Mubarak's government lied when officials claimed only 13 people were injured as a result of the Egyptian unrest or that, despite what countless hidden cameras have shown, foreign reporters are-according to Mubarak-allowed to capture events. Cooper's word choice was not prejudiced; instead, it was only stating the obvious.

A large part of the reason that I switched majors back in college from Journalism to Literature was because I discovered, in all honesty, that reporters are expected to write at a seventh grade level. In other words, they're expected to "dumb down" reports. So I bowed out.

Sadly, in today's media climate, we mistake being comatose for objectivity. As a culture, have we switched political correctness for reasoning? Why are journalists prohibited from being critical thinkers? When did reporting become so phlegmatic?

As Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. aptly put it, "After years of criticism for their liberal bias -- some of it merited - news media, eager as a puppy to be liked, have corrected by over correcting. Which is to say that in the search for that mythical beast, objectivity, they have sought to banish from the news-gathering process an indispensable element: judgment...I intend no defense of the intrusion of opinion into the space reserved for news. But I do defend the transmission of verifiable, quantifiable facts."

Ana Guthrie is a super cool chick with a heart for God and love for youth culture. She doubles as a not-so-naughty librarian and instructor at Florida Memorial University in Miami, Florida.