Before I got cable, I would see Cooper in the wee morning hours. IIRC, he was on ABC over-night news, so he was on around 4-5 a.m.
He was watchable; didn't seem to be agenda oriented. But that time slot is more of a 'break in' for new news-readers. It isn't until they get more exposure in the prime time that their true colors/leanings come out.
Cooper vaguely reminds me of Frank Reynolds, whom I always enjoyed watching when he was the evening anchor.
Or Harry Reasoner! Just a "reader" is what I am looking for on a news show!
My favorite memory of Harry Reasoner is a story they did one night about world population -- remember when that was the big deal, too many people being born?
Anyway, after the story filled with the anti's and the know it alls, Reasoner sort of smirked and said, "I guess this is just as good a time as any to announce that Mrs. Reasoner and I are expecting our tenth child in the fall." (It could have been 9th, but it was 9th or 10th.)
It was a classic.