News With Attitude Celebrates a Year

Nakia Cooper is celebrating the one-year anniversary her blog, Lip Service: News With an Attitude, A user-friendly version of CNN, BET and NBC all mixed up into one.

The blog has attracted audiences from all over, has over 1500 Facebook “likes” and countless hits.

In an interview with GoddessIntellect.com, Cooper says, “I come from the world of “if you don’t hustle; you don’t eat,” so I wear a variety of hats.” And she does. She is a mother, an Emmy award winner; she works for one of the prime news stations in Houston, KHOU, and maintains a notable news blog, Lip Service: News with Attitude.

Although Cooper does many things, her dedication to her unorthodox news blog is what is the most interesting about her.  Cooper came up with the idea to change the way news is received by everyday readers. She prefers to look deep into the stories she covers, and make sure that all sides are spoken for.

 “We’ll tell you what was said at the beginning, and then we’ll break it down. That’s what lip service is about. I’m not just blowing smoke up your butt,” Cooper said. “I’m going to tell you what is and we’re going to take it from there.”

While the website is something she is very passionate about, she still considers it a hobby and she does not compete with KHOU in any way. In earlier years, lip service was a term that was used to describe idle talking or as Cooper puts it, “talking a whole lot of smack and doing nothing about it!” 

Cooper is has taken the term “lip service” and turned it around to have a new meaning. 

She wants people to see lip service as giving attitude, but in a good way. Over its year of existence, Lip Service has covered everything from local news to relationship advice, and does so with style.  It is broken down into different sections that cover different areas of news, community, and advice.  In Your Backyard, Way Over There, Body Beautiful, Hollywood Stir-fry, Relationship GPS, and Street Journals are the different parts of the website that readers can go to in order to get information on everything going on in the world today.

An example of the type of articles published on the site is a story from last year that talks about the controversy between Tyler Perry and Spike Lee. Cooper feels that this particular article and those like it that she publishes are what set her apart from other news blogs and websites. “This article makes you think, it really does. Other people will tell you ‘Spike Lee said this, Tyler Perry says that’. We give an insight to readers.”

The way that the news is covered, which is a bit more relaxed than what Cooper does for KHOU, is a major part of the website's success. The user friendliness allows readers to see the news Cooper covers for exactly what it is.