On assignment for several years , Cooper had very slowly become desensitized to the violence he was witnessing around him ; the horrors of the Rwandan genocide became trivial : " I would see a dozen bodies and think , you know , it 's a dozen , it 's not so bad . " One particular incident , however , snapped him out of it : In 1995 , Cooper became a correspondent for ABC News , eventually rising to the position of co-anchor on its overnight '' World News Now '' program on September 21 , 1999 . In 2000 , he switched career paths , taking a job as the host of ABC 's reality show '' The Mole ''
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Anderson Cooper