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The Man Who Made '60 Minutes' Tick (Barf Alert)
The Washington Post ^
| March 15, 2006
| Tom Shales
Posted on 03/15/2006 1:15:15 PM PST by abb
"60 Minutes" without Mike Wallace? It's almost like "Oprah" without Oprah. But yesterday Wallace, 87, confirmed that this season on the Sunday-night CBS News program will be his last.
"The time comes, for crying out loud," Wallace said from his apartment in New York. "You want to do it while you still can, under your own power." Wallace said that he plans to remain at CBS News and that he will continue to work on occasional pieces as a "correspondent emeritus."
At CBS News and in the TV business generally yesterday, there was speculation that the retirement is not Wallace's idea -- that his departure was part of a purge of aging veterans so younger faces could fill the screen.
"Oh, God, no!" was Wallace's reply to such rumors. In a prepared statement, he said, "CBS is not pushing me."
"I'm sure there is skepticism," Wallace said. "All I can tell you is, I had a long talk with [CBS News President] Sean McManus, and I made the decision. To suggest there weren't different opinions about this within the news division -- of course there were. But I figure, what the hell, they've been so damn good to me for so long, it's no time for sour grapes."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; cbs; liberalmedia; mikewallace; retirement; takerooneywithyou
I prolly shouldn't oughta have posted this... But what the hell, maybe we should go ahead and get our blood pumping good this afternoon....
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:15:18 PM PST
by
abb
To: abb
that his departure was part of a purge of aging veterans so younger faces could fill the screen. Like Trish Regan's?
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:17:19 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
To: abb
When Mike Wallace started at 60 Minutes they were using a Sun Dial.
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:17:30 PM PST
by
TheForceOfOne
(Memogate - Dan Rathers Little Big Horn.)
To: abb
In the early days, Wallace was the face of 60 mins. Hard nose journalism, as it used to be.
Too bad he started to believe his press clippings.
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:18:14 PM PST
by
llevrok
(The answer is often in the question.)
To: My2Cents
Like Trish Regan's?she's on her bended knees, at the alter, begging for a job, I hear.....
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:19:29 PM PST
by
llevrok
(The answer is often in the question.)
To: abb
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:27:11 PM PST
by
CAP811
(One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place)
To: abb
Katie Couric on Mike Wallace this morning, "He's actually downright
studly!"
Well now, ......... I hadn't heard that word since the 60's.
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:29:54 PM PST
by
beyond the sea
(The definition of a 'Targeted Tax Cut' is ........................ you ain't gettin' it)
To: llevrok
He is amazing for his age. I sort of admire him for that.
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:31:03 PM PST
by
beyond the sea
(The definition of a 'Targeted Tax Cut' is ........................ you ain't gettin' it)
To: abb
I stopped watching 60 Minutes many years ago, as it became more liberal. If they'd replace the current staff with some sharp conservatives (maybe John Stossel?), I'd start watching again.
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:37:34 PM PST
by
American Quilter
(Your resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln)
To: beyond the sea
The guy was born in 1918! Yikes! Amazing is right...Check this out...
1918
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918
August - "Spanish Flu" Influenza becomes pandemic; over twenty-five million people die in the following six months (almost two times as many as died during the war).
(Hmmm...Just what we are worrying about now with bird flu.)
Or how about this, the Sedition act lol!!
May 16 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by US Congress.
Sedition act, where are you when we need you?? Al Gore is calling!
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posted on
03/15/2006 1:48:34 PM PST
by
Screamname
(OWWW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq5aTGSR-Pk&search=jessica%20biel)
To: abb
Wallace had hosted his own interview show with a cigarette sponsor and did commercials for the cigarettes even after the show ended.
A few years ago, PBS reran an episode of that show. I think it was from the '50s, I think. The episode featured a chain-smoking Wallace interviewing Frank Lloyd Wright. The funny thing was that Wallace was even more obnoxious and irritating back then. Wallace's questions were petty and argumentative. It was no way to treat a legendary architect who was around 90 at the time.
To: irishjuggler
I think it was from the '50s, I think.
Oops. "I think it was from the '50s."
To: irishjuggler
I think it was from the '50s, I think.
Cogito, ergo sum, cogito.
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posted on
03/15/2006 2:13:13 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: abb
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posted on
03/15/2006 2:30:48 PM PST
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: abb
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posted on
03/15/2006 3:05:31 PM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM: The perpetual insulting of common sense.)
To: abb
Versus Dan Rather, "The Man Who Made Up 60 Minutes".
Though frankly he didn't have a corner on that.
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posted on
03/15/2006 8:10:46 PM PST
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: abb
Oprah without Oprah? Now there's an idea!
To: abb
Murricans are strange. This obsession of keeping the original people is the same role forever. Are they that limited or is the talent pool that shallow?
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posted on
03/15/2006 10:10:12 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(Don't vote- it only encourages them)
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