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'60 Minutes' Creator Don Hewitt Dies
CBS ^ | 08/19/09 | CBS

Posted on 08/19/2009 8:35:51 AM PDT by TomServo

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1 posted on 08/19/2009 8:35:51 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: TomServo

Rooney and Wallace will finish out that trifecta.


2 posted on 08/19/2009 8:40:29 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (Forget going Galt. Its time to go Braveheart.)
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To: TomServo

60 Minutes started out as a good program. Later it became totally corrupted by Political Correctness and and then a mouthpiece for the liberal cause.


3 posted on 08/19/2009 8:40:46 AM PDT by DH (The government writes no bill that does not line the pockets of special interests.)
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To: TomServo

May He Rest In Peace.
4 posted on 08/19/2009 8:42:01 AM PDT by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences.)
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To: TomServo

That’s two?


5 posted on 08/19/2009 8:42:13 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote
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To: TomServo

Rest in peace Don Hewitt. A true innovator in television news.


6 posted on 08/19/2009 8:43:28 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

Bob Novak yesterday.


7 posted on 08/19/2009 8:43:51 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Can we trade in the clunker we have in the White House?)
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To: TomServo

All in all, a good show. The only real thorns to me are the Puff Piece segments with Leslie Stahl and the occasional obvious pro-Left Agenda pieces. Stahl is definitely lacking in comparison.


8 posted on 08/19/2009 8:45:35 AM PDT by TCats
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To: WakeUpAndVote

Uncle Walter makes it 3.


9 posted on 08/19/2009 8:45:46 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: TomServo

May he roast, umm, somewhere.


10 posted on 08/19/2009 8:46:49 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
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To: Liberty Valance

RIP


11 posted on 08/19/2009 8:47:39 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: TomServo

Yup. See ya.


12 posted on 08/19/2009 8:48:04 AM PDT by dr_who
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To: Arm_Bears

Care to explicate?


13 posted on 08/19/2009 8:50:38 AM PDT by Borges
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To: TomServo; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Time's up. Put down your pencil.

14 posted on 08/19/2009 8:51:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: TomServo; a fool in paradise

Does this mean no more Andy Looney?


15 posted on 08/19/2009 8:55:09 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: TomServo
That makes it 3.

Walter Cronkite, Robert Novak, and this guy.

16 posted on 08/19/2009 8:59:19 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("It (Gov't) can't make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and wise" - Sarah Palin 07/26)
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To: Revolting cat!

Did his job get offshored to China?


17 posted on 08/19/2009 8:59:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Borges

No.


18 posted on 08/19/2009 9:01:03 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
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To: Liberty Valance
"Rest in peace Don Hewitt. A true innovator in television news."

Yes, many Freepers will have issues at the way the journalists he featured chose to perform their jobs (biased to the extreme even at the expense of their journalistic integrity, for starters), but nobody can deny Hewitt his phenomenal achievement in creating the genre. For many years, Hewitt's show was a veritable institution in this country - more influential than any of his copycat competitors could ever dream of becoming.

19 posted on 08/19/2009 9:08:12 AM PDT by leilani
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To: TomServo
Can you be sure this SeeBS news release isn't fake but accurate?
20 posted on 08/19/2009 9:09:09 AM PDT by Zakeet (Don't tell Obama what comes after trillion)
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